Re: [edk2-devel] Mappings and StdLib

["Andrew Fish" <afish@apple.com>]

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Tim,

I don't know about the plans with the StdLib, but I do remember a long time ago with the old shell there was a protocol that let you translate volume names (mappings) into handles and device paths. 

So you could write a simple library that has 2 styles of APIs:
1) Handle + FilePath in Shell mapping with Volume Name out
2) Shell file path with mapping Volume names in and Simple File System handle Out with the file path
	a) A device path out version of this is also useful

You can make the lib just error return if the Shell protocol does not exist so you don't make it a requirement. The caller handles that failure as the current working volume/directory case. 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> On Sep 4, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Tim Lewis <tim.lewis@insyde.com> wrote:
> 
> Following up on my last e-mail, I guess I had the wrong assumption: there doesn’t appear to be a way to resolve mappings within StdLib.
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> Are there any plans here?
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> Thanks,
>
> Tim
> 


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