Crash when directory ends with space

[dma_k]

Dear xnview developers,

I have noticed that xnview v1.98.2 does not correctly behave in case the directory name ends with space (e.g. "test "). In this case it is not possible to select this directory (the way out it to right-click and rename it). However after selecting the parent directory of "test ", xnview crashes with following message:



Let me know, how to generate better crash report.

[marsh]

There is only one author as far as I know...

Trailing spaces were unconventional file/folder names on Win2k. Perhaps this remains true for all their OS.
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Crashes while renaming a folder

[dma_k]

marsh, thanks a lot. You've found very relative issue. Alltogather:

• Adding a normal space (no tricks with 0xA0) works perfectly OK in WinXP and Win7. Perhaps that is forbidden, but OS allows to create such directories (I've tried my file manager and xnview). CMD currently can hardly deal with it, but DIR can recurse them:

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  C:\TEMP> dir /b /s
  C:\TEMP\aaa
  C:\TEMP\aaa   \bbb
  

• xnview does not crash when such directory is created, but you can't select it. It crashes later, perhaps when gets the notification that i's contents has changed or reads the contents of parent directory.

[xnview]

How do you create such folder?

[dma_k]

How do you create such folder?

Good question. I used Far Manager for that. From one side neither command line tool (mkdir) nor explorer allow to create such folders. But Win API allows it, so there might be software that can create it.

[xnview]

How do you create such folder?

Good question. I used Far Manager for that. From one side neither command line tool (mkdir) nor explorer allow to create such folders. But Win API allows it, so there might be software that can create it.

Strange via API, last space is not used...