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From: "Martin Str|mberg (ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Fwd: A few DJGPP libc.a bugs
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 09:33:31 +0000 (UTC)
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"Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT gnu DOT org) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> > From: "Wiktor S. (wswiktorSP AT Mpoczta DOT fm) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
> > Maybe it's enough to add one more step:
> > 
> > Instead of
> > 
> > >    . Otherwise, fail
> > 
> > do
> > 
> >     . Otherwise, use LFN
> >     . Otherwise, fail

> What will that do to legitimate failures on other types of volumes?

Obviously we don't know, but logical result would be fail. If we can't
open it by SFN it doesn't exist (except on exFAT) so we shouldn't be
able to open the non-existing file with the LFN either.

However, DOS' successors aren't logical.


-- 
MartinS