On Friday 21 November 2003 09:43, Rolf Kalbermatter wrote: > I would actually agree with Alexandre here, but W2K at least behaves > differently. > My tests show that RemoveDirectory just as CreateDirectory rejects all > paths which contain one of the wildcards ": * ? \" < > |" with error 123 > completely independent where that character occurs (not just in the path > element which is created).
I extended the conformance test to check that and yes, RemoveDirectory will fail on W2K (ntfs). To add to your observation, there is also a number of invalid non-readable characters, and I read somewhere that FAT also rejects '^'. > And as far as I can say DeleteFile just as much behaves also this way. > So should we attempt to be smarter than Windows in this case? No, I don't think we should. Some (buggy) application might depend on it. But I do think that RemoveDirectory always succeeding would have been a better implementation. By the way, this points in the direction of a single parameter checking routine that get's called in all API's that take a path or filename. -Hans
