On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Alexandre Julliard wrote: [...] > Note that a valid file handle will never be NULL, so while these > checks are wrong in theory, in practice it makes no difference.
Right. But the invalid check means that in some cases we will call CloseHandle(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) which the MSDN has this to say about: > If the application is running under a debugger, the function will > throw an exception if it receives either a handle value that is not > valid or a pseudo-handle value. This can happen if you close a handle > twice, or if you call CloseHandle on a handle returned by the > FindFirstFile function. I did not check but I guess Wine does not do that... so far. It's still best avoided. -- Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fgouget.free.fr/ The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable -- Paul Dean