[Pythonmac-SIG] Serious bug with FSSpecs (and GUSI, and MacPython) on OSX

[Jack Jansen]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 02:17 , Mark Day wrote:

> Jack,
>
> You've found a bug in the Carbon File Manager on Mac OS X.
>
> When you pass in a mangled filename, the File Manager is supposed to 
> try finding the name literally, then try finding it based by its ID 
> (the XXXXX part).
>
> If it finds the file by ID, it is supposed to then derive the mangled 
> name again and compare it to what you passed in.  Carbon isn't doing 
> this.  You can definitely write up a bug and describe how it has data 
> losing consequences (in the hopes that a fix gets released sooner).

I filed the bug, number 2854931, and as of yesterday the state has been 
set to "verify" and the resolution to "Not to be fixed". I assume that 
this means "we've looked at it, it's indeed a problem, but we're not 
going to do anything about it" :-(
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