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Bug 351981

Summary: [Native Launcher] Fails to start when paths are long paths
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: z.graignic
Component: LauncherAssignee: Project Inbox <equinox.launcher-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description z.graignic CLA 2011-07-13 10:31:31 EDT
Build Identifier: 

On Windows it is not possible to use in Unicode a long path prefix so paths can go beyond the _MAX_PATH limit. When such paths are used the win32 native launcher fails to find and load the library, producing the "the executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library" error when used on the console native launcher.

The given reproduction steps are using eclipse as an example. We are using the console version to start our RCP software.

We have tried with the latest code of the native launcher from the CVS and its the same.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a small console program with the follow code:

#include <windows.h>

#define PATH_TO_RCP_EXE_DIR L"C:\\Dev\\eclipse3.6-perso"
#define EXE_FILENAME L"eclipse.exe"

#define PATH_TO_RCP_EXE PATH_TO_RCP_EXE_DIR L"\\" EXE_FILENAME

int wmain(int argc, wchar_t argv[])
{
	STARTUPINFOW startupInfo;
    ZeroMemory(&startupInfo, sizeof(startupInfo));
    startupInfo.cb = sizeof(startupInfo);
    PROCESS_INFORMATION processInfo;
    ZeroMemory(&processInfo, sizeof(processInfo));

	// This one is working
	//if (CreateProcessW(PATH_TO_RCP_EXE, EXE_FILENAME, NULL, NULL, TRUE, CREATE_NO_WINDOW , NULL, PATH_TO_RCP_EXE_DIR, &startupInfo, &processInfo))

	// This one is not working
    if (CreateProcessW(L"\\\\?\\" PATH_TO_RCP_EXE, EXE_FILENAME, NULL, NULL, TRUE, CREATE_NO_WINDOW , NULL, L"\\\\?\\" PATH_TO_RCP_EXE_DIR, &startupInfo, &processInfo))
	{
	    WaitForSingleObject(processInfo.hProcess, INFINITE);
		CloseHandle(processInfo.hThread);
		CloseHandle(processInfo.hProcess);
	}

	return 0;
}


2. Execute the program

=> The child procress is started but the launcher fails to start the RCP application
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2019-10-08 14:26:29 EDT
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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