Use the newer IFileOperation interface about recycle-bin

[anaisbetts]

I'm not sure that the newer API will get you long paths, you might try prepending \\?\ to the path you hand off to SHFileOperation to see if that works before you go down the road of using IFileOperation.

You definitely need to use C++ to use that API though, calling COM via C is very very ugly. That being said, you don't really need to actually use any fancy C++ features, just the ability to call methods on classes, so the code will still feel super C-like.

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[Qix-]

@paulcbetts is correct; so long as your C doesn't use any really specific c99 or really any c11 features (you haven't yet as far as I can tell) your C code should already be "C++" code; in quotes, because you generally don't use puts() or things like that in C++.

[YurySolovyov]

FWIW this is how electron does it, but I think it is blocking the caller thread

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