Arla 0.3.5.11, Mac OS X 10.2.6 Finder

[Thomas Jordan]

We were not able to get Arla to build on the Panther seed. gcc 
complained about about a missing file. We spent all of fifteen minutes 
looking for a solution and then had to get back to "real work". You 
know, the kind that pays the bills but is much less interesting. . .

	t.

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 05:52 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 6:01 PM +0200 9/12/03, Harald Barth wrote:
>> This is because the finder tries to interpret the result of
>> stat() instead of using access(). You can work around by
>> maching your uid and your pts id or by chaning the
>> permission bits (with chmod) that do not matter in AFS.
>>
>>>  Is there a cure?
>>
>> There is a workaround but the cure is in changing the Finder and as I
>> understood from people who actually talked to folks at Apple, the
>> Finder devellopers didn't want to change it because "it is not a bug
>> if you use our file system and it is faster". I think this is a silly
>> argument because it breaks the file system API. It is OK to do so in
>> your own backyard, but if you leave your own backyard (AFS, NFS) you
>> should stick to the rules.
>
> According to a very old post (on darwin-development I think) Apple was 
> researching the problem, but it was somewhere mysterious in their GUI 
> class hierarchy and not anywhere obvious in the Finder sources. In 
> other words they were more willing to fix the problem than you might 
> think, but it was harder than you might think.
>
> Has anyone looked at the Panther Developer seed to see if the problem 
> persists there?  (I haven't.)
>
>> If you are annoyed by the Finder's behaviour and you have support on
>> MacOS, I'd suggest you give Apple a bug report, so they have something
>> to think about ;-)
>
> This is a good idea in any case.  Just make sure you mark which OSX 
> version you have the problem on.
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> Henry.B.Hotz at jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz at oxy.edu
>
>
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