I'll note the Mac carbon VM has a info.plist flag that is turned on to ensure the tryLoading logic tries less hard and considers the internall bundle's application folder first so the the number of opens is *considerably* less.
On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:48 AM, subbukk wrote:
Hi,
In platforms/unix/vm/sqUnixExternalPrims.c: 231 if (( handle= tryLoading( "./", pluginName)) 232 || (handle= tryLoadingPath("SQUEAK_PLUGIN_PATH", pluginName)) 233 || (handle= tryLoading( VM_LIBDIR"/", pluginName)) 234 || (handle= tryLoadingPath("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", pluginName)) 235 || (handle= tryLoading( "", pluginName))
The most likely place to find plugins would be the directory where the squeakvm executable is located. So, shouldn't the search start from that directory? The current directory is not a reliable location and should be tried only as a last resort.
An strace of squeak (3.7.7) startup reveals 181 attempts to open of which 179 fails with ENOENT.
Regards .. Subbu
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