GetLastError strangeness with FindClose
Kelly Leahy
kellyleahy at swbell.net
Sat Aug 16 15:05:23 CDT 2003
> AFAIK, it's never said that a successful function call should set the
> last error to 0. This only thing MS claims is that when a function
> fails, the last error is set to a error code explaining that error.
>
> Moreover, wine's goal is not to make a better design than windows, but
> to mimic windows behavior. So, if FindClose doesn't change the last
> error on success, wine should do the same (especially if some known
> program depends on it)
>
You're missing my point (or maybe you're not and you just don't agree with
me - in either case, let me make my point in a clearer way). If windows
doesn't say it won't change the last error, we, as programmers, should
assume that it might. In my experience, a large number of functions that
set last error on failure set it to ERROR_SUCCESS on success. For the few
that don't, I would consider this an oversight on MS's part, and I wouldn't
expect it to exist in all implementations of a particular function (across
OS versions).
Just my 0.02.
Kelly
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