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stat() behavior differs on Win9x and WinNT



With recent snapshots, stat() of a file with an invalid name,
like stat("abc>def") ('>' is not allowed in file names), does 
not fail on Win98:

  Win98:
    $ ls -l 'abc>def'
    -r-xr-xr-x   1 fifer    unknown         0 Jan  1  1970 abc>def

  WinNT:
    $ ls -l 'abc>def'
    ls: abc>def: No such file or directory

A comparison of Win98 and WinNT straces show
different Win32 error codes being returned for
the same problem:

  Win98:
    symlink_info::check: GetFileAttributesA (c:\efifer\opt\abc>def) failed
    seterrno: 161 (BAD_PATHNAME) -> 22
    [...]
    fhandler_base::open: -1 = CreateFileA [...]
    seterrno: 161 (BAD_PATHNAME) -> 22
    [...]
    stat_worker: -1 = stat [...]

  WinNT:
    symlink_info::check: GetFileAttributesA (c:\efifer\opt\abc>def) failed
    seterrno: 123 (INVALID_NAME) -> 2
    [...]
    fhandler_base::open: -1 = CreateFileA [...]
    seterrno: 123 (INVALID_NAME) -> 2
    [...]
    stat_worker: -1 = stat [...]

A patch is trival, but I'm not sure which is correct:

  + map BAD_PATHNAME to ENOENT (instead of the current EINVAL), but
    I have no idea how widespread the impact of this might be.  Or,
    maybe INVALID_NAME should really be EINVAL?

  + change the test in stat_worker to:

      (!oret && get_errno () != ENOENT && get_errno () != EINVAL)

Thanks,

Eric Fifer

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