1. Re: Error: file name for OPEN is too long
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at Ra??dEuphoria.com>
Dec 20, 2007
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Last edited Dec 21, 2007
Matt Lewis wrote:
> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > Matt Lewis wrote:
> > > It seems reasonable to pick these values up from the platform correct
> > > headers.
> > >
> > > Matt
> >
> > I agree.
> > Also, wouldn't it be better when Eu returns -1 (or maybe -2 ?), when
> > a path/file name is too long, rather than causing the program to crash?
> > For my program that crashed a few days ago, I'll write a wrapper for
> > open() with this behaviour.
>
> That makes a lot of sense to me. I didn't even really notice the RTFatal
> call there. Perhaps Rob can chime in (if he remembers) about why it's
> a fatal error rather than a failed open?
I don't remember exactly.
I guess back in the old 8.3 file name era
the idea of a path greater than 250 or so characters seemed
very weird, so I may have thought that it must be a
bug in the user's program that he would want reported to him.
Feel free to change it.
> And since we have information about why the file failed, it does make sense
> to report this. The only issue is that we will break code that tests:
> }}}
<eucode>
> if fn = -1 then
> </eucode>
{{{
I have a lot of code that tests for -1.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
