Re: FreePascal - FindFirst and I/O Handles Used

On 2007-05-04, Jim Bishop <bishopjp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Is this a compiler bug?  Configuration bug? HW bug?  Or how can I free a

> handle that FindFirst apparantly uses?  Workarounds?

findclose.  Dos had static filehandles and would just RTE at some point.
With dynamic filehandles you need it.

In Delphi (sysutils) it changed to return a value to properly detect if it
needs closing, the skeleton then becomes:

if findfirst(arguments)=<something> then
  begin
   repeat 
   until not findnext or done;
   findclose
  end;

Probably with unit dos you need to check ioresult or doserror to get the
same.
I can't exactly what, since I have used sysutils pretty much exclusively
since 2003 (when what would become 2.0. started to mature).

This also because the sysutils one also allows longer paths on systems
that
sup****t it, because it is not limited to shortstring length.

Nearly all unit dos file-io and path functions have a better equivalent in
unit sysutils. (the major difference allowing longer paths, which is quite
annoying on Unix otherwise)