Anthony Adachi wrote:

>Stephen Pair wrote:
>
>> It should (IMO) be made to pass on the Mac as well.
>>    
>>
>
>It doesn't and fails running on a Mac OS 9.1 and
>Squeak 3.5. Upon stepping into the failing test I
>narrowed it down to this assertion:
>
>self shouldnt: [(FileDirectory on: testFileName)
>exists]]
>
>Also, at that point, looking in the Finder I can see
>that "zTestDir:zDirExistsTest.testing." exists.
>
>Anthony
>

That's correct...this test passes on Unix and Windows systems, but fails 
on Mac OSX (and apparently 9.1 as well).  There is a bug in the Mac 
implementation that should be corrected.  That was why I wrote the test 
and posted the message.  The problem is that the Mac implementation of 
the primitive FilePlugin>>primitiveDirectoryLookup (dir_lookup() is the 
platform specific C function) is simply checking to see whether there is 
an entry named like the FileDirectory without regard to whether or not 
the entry is actually a directory.  As I mentioned earlier, I think the 
behavior on Windows and Unix is correct, and the Mac implementation 
needs to be corrected to conform to the Windows and Unix implementations.

This test needs to be added to the FileDirectoryTests so that we can 
make sure this issue doesn't manifest itself again in the future.

- Stephen