Marco van de Voort wrote: >> On 28 Jun 06, at 23:41, Marc Santhoff wrote: >> > Am Mittwoch, den 28.06.2006, 12:17 -0500 schrieb Jeff Pohlmeyer: >> . >> . >> > What I don't understand is why the var "errno" is not set or it's >> value >> > is destroyed before Findfirst/-Next return. Does this value has to be >> > set explicitely by using fpseterrno()? It returns always -1 in case of >> > permission denied. >> >> My opinion is that SysUtils.FindFirst should >> return 5 in case of an error; "errno" is not >> portable, whereas SysUtils is supposed to support >> portable code. > > (that is not really the problem, OS errorcodes can be hauled with > getlastoserror, which is errno on *nix)
Well, it is a problem, because not returning the error code directly in return value violates SysUtils.FindFirst specification and most probably Delphi compatibility too. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
