From 92fba05040db38ef36d53a46c2e86590501d3b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arvid Norberg <arvid@libtorrent.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:51:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] attempt to fix unc paths on windows

---
 src/file.cpp | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/file.cpp b/src/file.cpp
index 3432b13ab..08bda8c15 100644
--- a/src/file.cpp
+++ b/src/file.cpp
@@ -801,20 +801,19 @@ namespace libtorrent
 			FILE_SHARE_READ,
 		};
 
-#if TORRENT_USE_WSTRING
-#define CreateFile_ CreateFileW
-		m_path = convert_to_wstring(path);
+#if TORRENT_USE_UNC_PATHS
+		// UNC paths must be absolute
+		std::string p = "\\\\?\\" + (is_complete(path) ? path : combine_path(current_working_directory(), path));
 #else
-#define CreateFile_ CreateFileA
-		m_path = convert_to_native(path);
+		std::string const& p = path;
 #endif
 
-#if TORRENT_USE_UNC_PATHS
 #if TORRENT_USE_WSTRING
-		m_path = L"\\\\?\\" + m_path;
+#define CreateFile_ CreateFileW
+		m_path = convert_to_wstring(p);
 #else
-		m_path = "\\\\?\\" + m_path;
-#endif // TORRENT_USE_WSTRING
+#define CreateFile_ CreateFileA
+		m_path = convert_to_native(p);
 #endif
 
 		TORRENT_ASSERT((mode & rw_mask) < sizeof(mode_array)/sizeof(mode_array[0]));