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-rw-r--r--include/sqfs/io.h27
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/sqfs/io.h b/include/sqfs/io.h
index 246ac70..4cdb574 100644
--- a/include/sqfs/io.h
+++ b/include/sqfs/io.h
@@ -54,7 +54,29 @@ typedef enum {
*/
SQFS_FILE_OPEN_OVERWRITE = 0x02,
- SQFS_FILE_OPEN_ALL_FLAGS = 0x03,
+ /**
+ * @brief If set, do not try to apply any character set transformations
+ * to the file path.
+ *
+ * This flag instructs the @ref sqfs_open_file API to pass the file
+ * path to the OS dependent API as-is and not to attempt any character
+ * set transformation. By default, if the underlying OS has a concept
+ * of locale dependent file paths, the input path is UTF-8 and it is
+ * transformed as needed, in order to retain a level of portabillity
+ * and sanity.
+ *
+ * This flag currently only affects the Windows implementation. On
+ * Unix-like systems, the path is always passed to the OS API as-is
+ * and this flag has no effect.
+ *
+ * On Windows, the input path is converted from UTF-8 to UTF-16 and
+ * then passed on to the wide-char based file API. If this flag is set,
+ * the path is used as-is and passed on to the 8-bit codepage-whatever
+ * API instead.
+ */
+ SQFS_FILE_OPEN_NO_CHARSET_XFRM = 0x04,
+
+ SQFS_FILE_OPEN_ALL_FLAGS = 0x07,
} SQFS_FILE_OPEN_FLAGS;
/**
@@ -134,7 +156,8 @@ extern "C" {
* API for file I/O.
*
* On Unix-like systems, if the open call fails, this function makes sure to
- * preserves the value in errno indicating the underlying problem.
+ * preserves the value in errno indicating the underlying problem. Similarly,
+ * on Windows, the implementation tries to preserve the GetLastError value.
*
* @param filename The name of the file to open.
* @param flags A set of @ref SQFS_FILE_OPEN_FLAGS.