NAME¶
File::HomeDir::Windows - Find your home and other directories on Windows
SYNOPSIS¶
use File::HomeDir;
# Find directories for the current user (eg. using Windows XP Professional)
$home = File::HomeDir->my_home; # C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin
$desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop; # C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\Desktop
$docs = File::HomeDir->my_documents; # C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\My Documents
$music = File::HomeDir->my_music; # C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\My Documents\My Music
$pics = File::HomeDir->my_pictures; # C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\My Documents\My Pictures
$videos = File::HomeDir->my_videos; # C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\My Documents\My Video
$data = File::HomeDir->my_data; # C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\Local Settings\Application Data
DESCRIPTION¶
This module provides Windows-specific implementations for determining common
user directories. In normal usage this module will always be used via
File::HomeDir.
Internally this module will use Win32::GetFolderPath to fetch the location of
your directories. As a result of this, in certain unusual situations (usually
found inside large organisations) the methods may return UNC paths such as
"\\cifs.local\home$".
If your application runs on Windows and you want to have it work comprehensively
everywhere, you may need to implement your own handling for these paths as
they can cause strange behaviour.
For example, stat calls to UNC paths may work but block for several seconds, but
opendir() may not be able to read any files (creating the appearance of
an existing but empty directory).
To avoid complicating the problem any further, in the rare situation that a UNC
path is returned by "GetFolderPath" the usual -d validation checks
will
not be done.
SUPPORT¶
See the support section the main File::HomeDir module.
AUTHORS¶
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
SEE ALSO¶
File::HomeDir, File::HomeDir::Win32 (legacy)
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2005 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.
Some parts copyright 2000 Sean M. Burke.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this
module.