[Lazarus] GetAllFilesMask / AllFilesMask

Juha Manninen juha.manninen62 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 19:08:18 CEST 2013


On 4/29/13, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
> So (int the context of the bug report) the programmer has no chance to do it
> right and all his knowledge about OS filter masks is of no use because an
> intermedate routine silently changes his mask? This is more than strange.
> What is the reason for doing this?

No, the mask does not change but it gets interpreted in the Unix way
(which is more logical but it is irrelevant here). We must adjust the
interpretation for the OS, Windows that is.

Juha




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