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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-27092

QDir::canonicalPath() on Windows returns empty string for existing directories in some cases

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    • 4.8.5
    • Core: I/O
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    • Windows 7 x64, Qt build for MSVC 2008 32-bit
    • Windows

      QDir::canonicalPath() on Windows returns empty string if that directory has been just created. Attaching a testcase. I tried it also on Linux x86_64 and it worked as expected.

      I consider this bug somewhat serious. There was code in my application that I acknowledge it wasn't ideal, but it relied on QDir::canonicalPath() returning actual path to the directory after successful QDir::mkpath(). I didn't test it thoroughly on Windows (only on Linux) and it caused data loss bugs for my Windows users.

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        # Subject Branch Project Status CR V
        97736,2 Windows: No longer use cached Exists-attribute in QFileSystemEngine::canonicalName(). 5.4 qt/qtbase Status: DEFERRED 0 0

            kleint Friedemann Kleint
            beevvy Bartosz Brachaczek
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