[BUG][FIX] FileDirectory (on Windows)

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Dec 4 17:14:31 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 04 December 2002 07:47 am, Stephen Pair wrote:

> The attached change set fixes this problem by overriding #exists in
> DosFileDirectory to check whether the path is to a drive.  It also
> makes #driveName a little more robust.
>
> I'm a bit concerned that this behavior might not be exibited in all
> versions of Windows.  What I found was that "self
> primLookupEntryIn: pathName index: 0" in FileDirectory>>exists was
> not giving back the expected result for a pathName of 'c:' (or
> other drive letter) and thus it was answering false.  I find it
> hard to believe that this was not caught until now.  Anyway, this
> fix works, but the real fix might need to happen in the
> primitive...I don't know.

The MoreFileFixes-nk change set that I posted on 30 November also 
fixes this problem.

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