Missing routines for 3.0 Unix VM: what's the status?

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Wed Feb 7 21:43:27 UTC 2001



Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> And if you set DISABLE_SECURITY and compile, you get a somewhat smaller list
> of undefined symbols:
> 
> dir_GetMacFileTypeAndCreator
> dropInit
> dropRequestFileHandle
> dropRequestFileName
> dropShutdown
> ioCanRenameImage
> ioCanWriteImage
> ioDisableImageWrite
> ioDisablePowerManager
> ioGetNextEvent
> ioGetSecureUserDirectory
> ioGetUntrustedUserDirectory
> ioScreenDepth
> ioSetInputSemaphore
> snd_SetVolume
> snd_Volume
> sqFileFlush
> sqImageFileStartLocation
> 
> though it seems that the routines
>         ioCanRenameImage,
>         ioCanWriteImage,
>         ioDisableImageWrite,
>         ioGetSecureUserDirectory, and
>         ioGetUntrustedUserDirectory
> should probably go away as well if you set DISABLE_SECURITY. But I haven't
> read the security code yet.

These could be part of the web browser plugin. Someone who actually 
know can probably comment :-)
Karl

> 
> And I wonder about making every OS define dir_GetMacFileTypeAndCreator when
> only the Mac needs it.
> 
> --
> Ned Konz
> currently: Stanwood, WA
> email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
> homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com





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