isDir won't throw FileException with dirEntries

Nick Treleaven nospam at example.com
Tue Aug 30 11:04:42 PDT 2011


On 30/08/2011 19:02, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 30/08/2011 18:54, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:39 Nick Treleaven wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> With the attached source file on Windows, dmd 2.054, I'm not getting an
>>> exception when the path doesn't exist. If I uncomment the foreach line,
>>> the exception is thrown. Should I file this in bugzilla?
>>
>> So, what exactly is the problem? Is the issue that isDir isn't
>> throwing or
>> that dirEntries isn't throwing? isDir should definitely throw if the path
>> doesn't exist, but I'm not sure that dirEntries will.
>
> The problem is that isDir doesn't throw - the documentation says:
> "Throws: FileException if the given file does not exist. "
>
> If I remove the foreach/dirEntries then isDir does throw.

BTW, I meant to say 'comment the foreach line' in my first post, sorry 
for the confusion...


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