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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2022-01-07-22-55-11.bpo-46217.tgJEsB.rst2
-rw-r--r--Python/fileutils.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2022-01-07-22-55-11.bpo-46217.tgJEsB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2022-01-07-22-55-11.bpo-46217.tgJEsB.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..78b3cd01a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2022-01-07-22-55-11.bpo-46217.tgJEsB.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Removed parameter that is unsupported on Windows 8.1 and early Windows 10
+and may have caused build or runtime failures.
diff --git a/Python/fileutils.c b/Python/fileutils.c
index d570be5577..151c6feb2e 100644
--- a/Python/fileutils.c
+++ b/Python/fileutils.c
@@ -2129,7 +2129,7 @@ join_relfile(wchar_t *buffer, size_t bufsize,
{
#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
if (FAILED(PathCchCombineEx(buffer, bufsize, dirname, relfile,
- PATHCCH_ALLOW_LONG_PATHS | PATHCCH_FORCE_ENABLE_LONG_NAME_PROCESS))) {
+ PATHCCH_ALLOW_LONG_PATHS))) {
return -1;
}
#else