Re: [PATCH 1/4] gameux: initial implementation of loading game statistics

[Alexandre Julliard]

Mariusz Pluciński <vshader(a)gmail.com> writes:
> +static BOOL GAMEUX_isFileExists(LPCWSTR sFile)
> +{
> +    HANDLE hFile;
> +
> +    hFile = CreateFileW(sFile, GENERIC_READ, 0,
> +            NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);
> +
> +    if(hFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
> +        return FALSE;
> +
> +    CloseHandle(hFile);
> +    return TRUE;
> +}

This sort of thing is not a good idea in general, even if it had a more
grammatically correct function name ;-)  If you need to load a file you
have to open it anyway, so you can check for errors at that point.
Checking for existence beforehand is only doing duplicate work.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org