Ok. Alan and Anthony,
would you like to be faster and follow optimistic strategy, that is
described here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/01/05/10111777.aspx
That do you thing about |CSIDL_FLAG_DONT_VERIFY/||KF_FLAG_DONT_VERIFY
flags for the |fix?
Regards,
-uta
On 22.01.2013 15:14, Anthony Petrov wrote:
On 1/22/2013 13:48, Alexey Utkin wrote:
One thing on SHGetKnownFolderPath is that you specify KF_FLAG_CREATE
and I'm not sure if that is right because we don't want the JDK
creating the user's directory if it doesn't exist.
That is a corner case. In the latest versions of OS, MS is trying to
follow "lazy" strategy in everything. Nothing is been instantiating
before the first use. But Java needs the home folder.
So, we have the right to request the creation. That is OS solution to
accept or decline the request.
I agree with Alan. Java shouldn't forcibly create the user directory
if it doesn't exist yet. I suggest to pass 0 (zero) as the dwFlags
argument to ::SHGetKnownFolderPath(). The same applies to a call to
the ::SHGetFolderPathW(). getHomeFromShell32() may return NULL, so let
it do so if no user directory exists.
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best regards,
Anthony
