From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:37:02 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: mingw: use `CreateHardLink()` directly
X-Git-Tag: v2.20.0-rc0~8^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/1e1a876bb2c895d59db8b7c8c4eb49ceef454bd3

mingw: use `CreateHardLink()` directly

The function `CreateHardLink()` is available in all supported Windows
versions (even since Windows XP), so there is no more need to resolve it
at runtime.

Helped-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index d2f4fabb44..14ef81874d 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -2211,24 +2211,12 @@ int mingw_raise(int sig)
 
 int link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath)
 {
-	typedef BOOL (WINAPI *T)(LPCWSTR, LPCWSTR, LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
-	static T create_hard_link = NULL;
 	wchar_t woldpath[MAX_PATH], wnewpath[MAX_PATH];
 	if (xutftowcs_path(woldpath, oldpath) < 0 ||
 		xutftowcs_path(wnewpath, newpath) < 0)
 		return -1;
 
-	if (!create_hard_link) {
-		create_hard_link = (T) GetProcAddress(
-			GetModuleHandle("kernel32.dll"), "CreateHardLinkW");
-		if (!create_hard_link)
-			create_hard_link = (T)-1;
-	}
-	if (create_hard_link == (T)-1) {
-		errno = ENOSYS;
-		return -1;
-	}
-	if (!create_hard_link(wnewpath, woldpath, NULL)) {
+	if (!CreateHardLinkW(wnewpath, woldpath, NULL)) {
 		errno = err_win_to_posix(GetLastError());
 		return -1;
 	}