[fpc-pascal] RE: findfirst and findnext on non accessible files

[Marco van de Voort]

> On 28 Jun 06, at 23:41, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 28.06.2006, 12:17 -0500 schrieb Jeff Pohlmeyer:
>  .
>  .
> > What I don't understand is why the var "errno" is not set or it's value
> > is destroyed before Findfirst/-Next return. Does this value has to be
> > set explicitely by using fpseterrno()? It returns always -1 in case of
> > permission denied.
> 
> My opinion is that SysUtils.FindFirst should 
> return 5 in case of an error; "errno" is not 
> portable, whereas SysUtils is supposed to support 
> portable code.

(that is not really the problem, OS errorcodes can be hauled with
getlastoserror, which is errno on *nix)