Date:	Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:38:07 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Win2K bad errno; proposed patch
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu wrote:

> According to RBIL, that code for Netware4 is "invalid character or
> bad file-system name" - which is exactly what we are seeing (so Win2K
> is consistent) - and on an open we want that to be ENOENT.
> It's quite possible that ENOENT is just as good a translation for any
> example of this error code vs EFAULT (and it's more consistent with
> pre-Win2K behavior).

ENOENT _is_ the right value to return when a file name contains invalid 
characters.  That is what DOS does when you try to create foo.bar.baz or 
foo?bar, for example.

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