[Mono-list] Directory.CreateDirectory behaviour

Robert Jordan robertj at gmx.net
Thu Nov 2 08:34:12 EST 2006


Colin JN Breame wrote:
> I've got a case where a Directory.CreateDirectory is silently failing.  Before 
> I raise I bug it might be worth testing this on the MS runtime.  Could 
> someone oblige?
> 
> Colin.
> 
> testcase:
> 
> using System.IO;
> public class test_t {
>   public static void Main() {
>     File.CreateText("test").Close();
>     Directory.CreateDirectory("test");
>     Directory.CreateDirectory("test1");
>   }
> }

MS.NET 1.1: It's failing silently.
MS.NET 2.0: It's failing with System.IO.IOException: Cannot create
'{0}' because a file or directory with the same name already exists.

Robert



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