pkg/longpath/longpath.go
Stefan J. Wernli 09a9d216d9 Windows: Fixing longpath hanlding of UNC paths.
Signed-off-by: Stefan J. Wernli <swernli@microsoft.com>
2015-09-30 19:36:08 -07:00

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// longpath introduces some constants and helper functions for handling long paths
// in Windows, which are expected to be prepended with `\\?\` and followed by either
// a drive letter, a UNC server\share, or a volume identifier.
package longpath
import (
"strings"
)
// Prefix is the longpath prefix for Windows file paths.
const Prefix = `\\?\`
// AddPrefix will add the Windows long path prefix to the path provided if
// it does not already have it.
func AddPrefix(path string) string {
if !strings.HasPrefix(path, Prefix) {
if strings.HasPrefix(path, `\\`) {
// This is a UNC path, so we need to add 'UNC' to the path as well.
path = Prefix + `UNC` + path[1:]
} else {
path = Prefix + path
}
}
return path
}