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Re: stat() behavior differs on Win9x and WinNT
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 11:30:11PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >"Fifer, Eric" wrote:
>> >>
>> >> With recent snapshots, stat() of a file with an invalid name,
>> >> like stat("abc>def") ('>' is not allowed in file names), does
>> >> not fail on Win98:
>> >> [...]
>> >[...]
>> >IMO the mapping ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME -> EINVAL is incorrect.
>>
>> I agree. Is the closest UNIX equivalent ENOENT? If so, let's make this
>> change.
>
>Yes, it is the closest equiv. Should I check it in?
Yup.
cgf