[Mono-list] DirectoryInfo.GetFiles() bug?

Jonathan Pryor jonpryor at vt.edu
Wed Jan 23 13:45:45 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:17 +0000, Alan McGovern wrote:
> Are you sure that's a bug? '*.*' will look for every file which
> contains a '.' character in it. If you want all files, you should just
> use ' * ', or leave out the mask altogether.

On Windows, '*.*' means *all* files, even those without a '.':

  http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/12/17/6785519.aspx

So how close do we want to get to Win32 semantics? :-)

 - Jon




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