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RE: return value of mkshortcut on Windows 7
On March 10, 2010, Andy Koppe wrote:
> David Byron:
> > mkshortcut is returning 8 when I expect it to return 0.
>
> Yep, known issue.
>
> > I'd love a hand getting mkshortcut to return 0 in this case.
>
> Index: src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/cygutils/src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.10
> diff -u -r1.10 mkshortcut.c
> --- src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c 3 Dec 2009 08:19:44 -0000 ? ? ? 1.10
> +++ src/mkshortcut/mkshortcut.c 11 Mar 2010 05:43:05 -0000
> @@ -612,6 +612,7 @@
> ?? ? ? ? ? ? }
> ?? ? ? ? ? persist_file->lpVtbl->Release (persist_file);
> ?? ? ? ? ? shell_link->lpVtbl->Release (shell_link);
> + ? ? ? ? ?return (0);
> ?? ? ? ? }
> ?? ? ? else
> ?? ? ? ? {
Thanks for the confirmation. Trying to avoid seeming helpless and demanding
but is there anything I can do to motivate the mkshortcut/cygutils
maintainers to release a version with this patch?
-DB
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