Re: need native call help

On 4/17/24 05:52, yary wrote:
>  From unlink's documentation:
> 
> If the file to be deleted does not exist, the routine treats it as success.
> 
> So trying to delete a file that isn't there, doesn't have an error, 
> which is kind of neat, but that is a difference from native delete.
> 
> -y


Hi Yary,

Not neat at all.  And that would be a bug that need
to be fixed.  I spend hours trying to troubleshoot
why I could not delete a file.

1) it should return "File not Found"

and

2) it should return "MAX_PATH exceed in file name"
if that is the case and `\\?\` has not been prepended.
And if such, recommend adding `\\?\`.  Or just
add it automatically as my ApiDeleteFile module
does.


This is Windows we are dealing with after all.

Oh look how it is done in Linux when deleting a
non-existent file:

$ rm abc.txt ; echo $?
rm: cannot remove 'abc.txt': No such file or directory
1

The "No such file or directory" is self explanatory.

The "1" from the echo of "$?" means the command failed,
unlike the no error return from Raku's unlink.  Unlink
need to be fixed.

-T