Maybe we should use [BUG][VM][Acorn|Mac|Unix|Win] in the subject?

- Stephen

John M McIntosh wrote:

> Mmm seem to me we need a process to inform the VM folks about bugs in  
> the VM, versus thinking we carefully read all
> the hundreds of messages on the mailing list. (well some of us do).  
> However I was waiting a bit for someone to clarify
> what the problem is and it's also nice to have a set of test cases too.
>
> I'll roll the bug fix in primitiveDirectoryLookup into the pending  
> 3.5.1,
>
> PS don't forget to test with aliases, those require special code to  
> resolve which *I  think* is mostly bug free. Multiple alias
> directory chains was the most painful, along with 255 byte names.  
> Ha,  anyone care about maximum path lengths, one might get surprised 
> about  how long or short they really can be...
>
> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 08:15  PM, Stephen Pair wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
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