Hi John,

I still haven't got a Mac machine for testing purposes, but with 
Comanche 6.1 there is still a lingering issue on the Mac VM.  I put a 
work around in for the #exists issue and that fixed file serving in 
Comanche 6.1, but I've gotten reports that auto generated directory 
indexes cause the server to go into some sort of infinite loop.  The 
problem can be observed if you install Comanche 6.1 (it's KomHttpServer 
on SqueakMap), start a basic file server (see the class comments in 
KomHttpServerInfo and evaluate the first example), and then point your 
browser to http://localhost:8080/ ...this should get you an auto 
generated listing of the files in your Squeak default directory 
(provided that you don't have an index.htm or index.html file in that 
directory), but on the Mac I think it goes into an infinite loop (at 
least with the older VM).  It works on Windows and Linux.

If you wanted to debug it, you might want to drop the priority level of 
the httpd service using:

    (Service serviceNamed: 'httpd')
       stop;
       priority: Processor userBackgroundPriority;
       start

The problem seems like it is most likely happening in: 
ModAutoIndex>>directoryListing:directory:

Anyway, I'm curious if this problem is still occurring in your latest 
VM, and if there might be a work around or VM fix that might get this 
working consistently across all platforms.  If you don't have the time, 
don't worry about it...I'm hoping that I can get an old Mac for testing 
purposes in the next couple of weeks.

BTW, do you happen to have an old OS9 system CD that you'd be willing to 
part with?  I've located a Mac that I can get on loan (from Joshua), but 
he's lost his system CDs.

- Stephen

John M McIntosh wrote:

> This is fixed in the macintosh squeak vm 3.5.1 which will ship real  
> soon now.
> The issue was asking for a directory index of 1 on a file, resolved  
> back to a no-more files, versus
> an error (bad path name) when you attempted to ask for  a directory  
> index entry on a file.
>
> On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 11:54  AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just discovered that the message FileDirectory>>exists is returning
>> true, even when the receiver is a file and not a directory. I am
>> currently working with a 3.5-5180 image on Mac OS X. The tests
>> FileDirectoryTests>>testDirectoryExists, >>testExists and
>>
>>>> testDeleteDirectory do also fail in that configuration. It seem to
>>>
>> work with Windows, so I think this is a platform related problem.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lukas
>>
>>
>>
>>
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