longpath

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Overview

Package longpath introduces some constants and helper functions for handling long paths in Windows.

Long paths are expected to be prepended with "\\?\" and followed by either a drive letter, a UNC server\share, or a volume identifier.

Index

• Constants
• func AddPrefix(path string) string
• func MkdirTemp(dir, prefix string) (string, error)

Constants

const Prefix = `\\?\`

Prefix is the longpath prefix for Windows file paths.

Functions

func AddPrefix

func AddPrefix(path string) string

AddPrefix adds the Windows long path prefix to the path provided if it does not already have it.

func MkdirTemp

func MkdirTemp(dir, prefix string) (string, error)

MkdirTemp is the equivalent of os.MkdirTemp, except that on Windows the result is in Windows longpath format. On Unix systems it is equivalent to os.MkdirTemp.