[Lazarus] FileExistsUTF8() difference between Unix/Windows

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:02:19 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, Bart via lazarus wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:26 PM Torsten Bonde Christiansen via
> > lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> No entirely though. The Unix version is mostly a wrapper, yes -
> >> but the Windows version do some additional filtering:
> >>
> >> function FileExistsUTF8(const Filename: string): boolean;
> >> var
> >>    Attr: Longint;
> >> begin
> >>    Attr := FileGetAttrUTF8(FileName);
> >>    if Attr <> -1 then
> >>      Result:= (Attr and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) = 0
> >>    else
> >>      Result:=False;
> >> end;  
> >
> > Not anymore in trunk:
> >
> > function FileExistsUTF8(const Filename: string): boolean;
> > begin
> >  Result := SysUtils.FileExists(Filename);
> > end;
> >
> > This will return False for directories.
> > (The test for (Attr and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) = 0 is done by
> > fpc now).
> >
> > On *nix everything is a file, so folders are reported to be files
> > as well AFAIK.  
> 
> SysUtils.FileExists also returns false for directories, to match
> windows behavour.

I added an incompatibility note:
https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.2.0_release_notes#LazUtils_Changes

Mattias