How can I calculate the complete buffer size for GetModuleFileName?

Question

The GetModuleFileName() takes a buffer and size of buffer as input; however its return value can only tell us how many characters is has copied, and if the size is not enoug

Answer 1

Here is a another solution with std::wstring:

DWORD getCurrentProcessBinaryFile(std::wstring& outPath)
{
    // @see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt238407.aspx
    DWORD dwError  = 0;
    DWORD dwResult = 0;
    DWORD dwSize   = MAX_PATH;

    SetLastError(0);
    while (dwSize <= 32768) {
        outPath.resize(dwSize);

        dwResult = GetModuleFileName(0, &outPath[0], dwSize);
        dwError  = GetLastError();

        /* if function has failed there is nothing we can do */
        if (0 == dwResult) {
            return dwError;
        }

        /* check if buffer was too small and string was truncated */
        if (ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER == dwError) {
            dwSize *= 2;
            dwError = 0;

            continue;
        }

        /* finally we received the result string */
        outPath.resize(dwResult);

        return 0;
    }

    return ERROR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW;
}