On 16.01.2016 14:01, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
I have found this issue the hard way as I checked for file existence in my program and it reported false although the file existed. So I overwrote it. IMO this is a bug. A function that claims to check for file existence should be as reliable as possible and not have some obscure side effects.
Yes, it can bite every one of us at some point. It has to be solved in a backwards-compatible way, though. Please report to mantis. Ondrej -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus