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Why does CreateEvent fail with ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND if I give it a name with a backslash?

January 12, 2012 Jan 12, 2012 01/12/12

Raymond Chen

A customer reported that the function was failing with the unusual error code : The customer continued, "The documentation for says that the parameter must not contain the backslash character. Clearly we are in error for having passed an illegal character, but why are we getting the strange error code? There is no file path involved. ...