mingw: use CreateHardLink() directly

This is another tidbit from the stash of Git for Windows' patches: it avoids loading the function address of CreateHardLink() at runtime. This was done in case we were running on a Windows version that does not support that function, but we no longer support any of these Windows versions.

Johannes Schindelin (1):
mingw: use CreateHardLink() directly

 compat/mingw.c | 14 +-------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)

base-commit: 8858448bb49332d353febc078ce4a3abcc962efe
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-77%2Fdscho%2Fmingw-CreateHardLink-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-77/dscho/mingw-CreateHardLink-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/77

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From: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

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.

---
 compat/mingw.c | 14 +-------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)

index 3b44dd99d7..fdcf946275 100644
@@ -2084,24 +2084,12 @@ 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;
 	}

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