Re: [MiNT] Dopendir() return values

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 11/01/11 14:12, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> writes:
>
>> On 11/01/11 13:43, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 11/01/11 10:54, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>>>> Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/01/11 09:41, Jean-François Lemaire wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just found out that Dopendir() returns the following value for a non-
>>>>>>> existing directory:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "-33 EFILNF 	File not found"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But according to TOS.HYP, it's supposed to return:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "-34 EPTHNF 	Directory (folder) not found"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now, I know that a directory is essentially a file, but EPTHNF would seem more 
>>>>>>> logical to me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, it seems that "EFILNF" is not defined in "mint/errno.h".
>>>>>> In this case, I think TOS.HYP is wrong. -33 is ENOENT, which is "No such
>>>>>> file or directory". -34 is ENOTDIR "Not a directory".
>>>>> Though GEMDOS uses these error codes how TOS.HYP describes them.
>>>> But Dopendir is a MiNT extension, not basic GEMDOS. So it should follow
>>>> it's extensions codes.
>>> Still, the description is not wrong.
>> Then, I'm not sure what you are saying here.
> -34 is correctly described as EPTHNF, and GEMDOS uses it in this sense
> in all contexts where a file name is resolved (not in the Unix meaning).

But that wasn't the original topic. It was explaining the return values
of Dopendir.

Alan.