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

[Robert Jordan]

Chris Howie wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 1:45 PM, Jonathan Pryor <jonpryor at vt.edu> wrote:
>> 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? :-)
> 
> Maybe it could be tied in some way to MONO_IOMAP or
> MONO_STRICT_IO_EMULATION so that people using broken OSes can switch
> on the behavior they need, and the rest of us get the right behavior
> by default.  :)

There is no need to raise the broken OS flag as the behavior
of Directory.GetFiles ("*.*") is clearly documented in MSDN.

Feel free to use Mono.Unix/Posix instead ;-)

Robert