I've a windows application that calls the win32 API function FindFirstFileA
on a non-existent file. As stated in microsoft windows SDK documentation at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364418(VS.85).aspx, the function
should return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, which is equivalent to 0xFFFFFFFF, when the
file interrogated doesn't exist.
Under windows, the function doesn't return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, even if the
file doesn't exist. On the contrary, with wine under linux it successfully
returns INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE.
Does anyone have an interpretation for this strange difference between the
behaviour of this function with windows(the one with the strange behaviour)
versus wine under linux?