On 19-Dec-05, at 10:23 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote:

> In my opinion this is a very critical bug that will let people decide
> against the use of Squeak for serious applications in the future.
> After discovering and identifying it some time ago, I keep on
> discovering new places where this particular problem causes other
> bugs. It is still difficult for me to understand how it could remain
> unfixed for almost 30 years :-/
It hasn't been around for 30 years. Just about every version of  
Smalltalk has a different way of dealing with files. So far as I can  
tell the Squeak code originated with the desire to make it only rely  
upon the ANSI lib functions - a laudable aim - but they are totally  
inadequate to any serious usage. Time to replace it.

tim
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