124002 - Add some info/doc to nsIFile::copyTo function.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Suresh]

Looks like copyTo(..) will fail if the file already exists in the destination 
directory. Can you add this comment in the iface. Thanks!

Comment 1

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Index: nsIFile.idl
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsIFile.idl,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -r1.49 nsIFile.idl
--- nsIFile.idl	29 Jan 2002 21:42:38 -0000	1.49
+++ nsIFile.idl	7 Mar 2002 23:54:01 -0000
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@
      *  If 'this' is not created we will return an error
      *  (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST).
      *
+     *  copyTo may fail if the file already exists in the destination 
+     *  directory
+     *
      *  copyTo will NOT resolve aliases/shortcuts during the copy.
      *
      *   @param newParentDir

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

i just added a period to the end of that sentense.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Checking in nsIFile.idl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/xpcom/io/nsIFile.idl,v  <--  nsIFile.idl
new revision: 1.50; previous revision: 1.49
done

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

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