stat() behavior differs on Win9x and WinNT
Corinna Vinschen
corinna@vinschen.de
Mon May 8 02:58:00 GMT 2000
"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:
> [...]
> Win98:
> symlink_info::check: GetFileAttributesA (c:\efifer\opt\abc>def) failed
> seterrno: 161 (BAD_PATHNAME) -> 22
> [...]
>
> WinNT:
> symlink_info::check: GetFileAttributesA (c:\efifer\opt\abc>def) failed
> seterrno: 123 (INVALID_NAME) -> 2
>
> A patch is trival, but I'm not sure which is correct:
>
> + map BAD_PATHNAME to ENOENT (instead of the current EINVAL), but
> I have no idea how widespread the impact of this might be. Or,
> maybe INVALID_NAME should really be EINVAL?
>
> + change the test in stat_worker to:
>
> (!oret && get_errno () != ENOENT && get_errno () != EINVAL)
IMO the mapping ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME -> EINVAL is incorrect.
Corinna
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