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Date:	Mon, 08 May 2000 11:51:53 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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To:	"Fifer, Eric" <EFifer AT sanwaint DOT com>
CC:	cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: stat() behavior differs on Win9x and WinNT
References:	<779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D997917171E AT silldn_mail1 DOT sanwaint DOT com>

"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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