[Mono-list] spec inconsistencies?

[Mike Gray]

What are you doing for inconsistencies related to the ECMA/MS docs?  For 
example, look at the System.IO.File class.  Many of the methods (AppendText, 
Copy, Create, CreateText, Delete, etc) throw 
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException's when the filename parameter contains 
a directory that does not exist (of course if the directory exists and the 
filename within it doesn't you will get System.IO.FileNotFoundException).  
For some reason though, G/SetCreationTime, G/SetLastAccessTime, and 
G/SetLastWriteTime would throw a System.IO.IOException instead.  For 
consistency, it would seem to make sense to throw the 
DirectoryNotFoundException for those methods as well when the filename 
parameter contains a directory that does not exist, no?

Mike Gray



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