New VMMaker/svn release

[tim Rowledge]

On 28-Dec-05, at 6:53 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> I say, let's kick the macro then and give that function a proper  
> prototype. The way it is right now is really not all that useful.
Sigh. It seems it isn't as simple as one would like here. It's -  
again - OSX causing trouble with its demented approach to aliases.  
Apparently we need to be able to specify whether the aliases  
potentially in the filepath get resolved or not; when opening a file  
we do, for renaming or deleting we don't. So far as I can tell only  
OSX has to do this but it means that any code hoping to work across  
platforms has to know when to do 'filenameMungerWithOpen'  as opposed  
to plain 'filenameMunger' if it hopes to run properly on OSX.

Right now all I can think of is either
a) making a a proxy function with 4 args - say  
ioFilenamefromStringofLengthresolveAlias(char* cBuffer,  
char*filename, sqInt fnSize, sqInt resolveFlag) - and two macros
b) or two proxy calls - ioFilenamefromStringofLength &  
ioFilenameOpenfromStringofLength

Ugly! Ugly! Clearer thoughts needed!

tim
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