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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Dropped wildcards patch
From:       Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel () shemesh ! biz>
Date:       2003-11-30 5:03:50
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Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel@shemesh.biz> writes:
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>>Are you sure you want the functions to only return the invalid
>>argument error if the file is actually not found? It creates
>>inconsistancies. An invalid argument is invalid whether the file is
>>there or not.
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>
>It's not invalid on Unix, that's the whole point. If we make them
>illegal right away it means you won't be able to access legally named
>Unix files. While checking for existence first will make no difference
>in 99% of the cases, it will do the right thing when a file with a
>wildcard exists in the file system, and I think that's worth a little
>inconsistency.
>
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>
I'm not sure I agree, but this is one of those cases where I guess we 
won't convince each other. As your'e the boss on that one, that's what 
I'll do.

             Shachar

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