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Reputation:

SetCurrentDirectory to a path with dot at the end

Win32 SetCurrentDirectory() function failing to change current directory to a path with dot at the end, resulting GetLastError 2 (The system cannot find the file specified.).

What's wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 620

Answers (1)

Jonathan Potter
Jonathan Potter

Reputation: 37122

File names are not allowed to end in dots, and the behaviour is not guaranteed if they do.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#naming_conventions

Do not end a file or directory name with a space or a period. Although the underlying file system may support such names, the Windows shell and user interface does not.

Upvotes: 2

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