IFileList, . , and ..

[tom]

Not sure where this goes so i'm sticking my comment here in the bug reports. Someone correct me if i should be posting this elsewhere.

IFileList will return the "." and ".." special directory entries which represent the current working directory and the parent of the working directory. My complaint/question/bug is i think there is little or no need for file list to return these by default.

In most cases the user is looking for a file ( by extension or some other wildcard ) in the directory and recursing thru folders. Unless they specificly deal with these special entries they will end up with broken code. In that respect i think that the default behavior should be to not return them in the file list.

I propose the IFileSystem API be changed to...

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virtual IFileList* createFileList( bool workingDirectories ) = 0;

I have an implementation of this fix if you want it Niko.

[niko]

Yep, useful suggestion, you are right. On my list.