Subj : Bug in internal DosFindF
To : Jonathan De Boyne Pollar
From : Lee Aroner
Date : Tue Mar 27 2001 02:57 pm
LA> The DOS support in OS/2 does appear to use a badly written
LA> FindFirst/FindNext call, however it has a serious bug that
LA> results in a return of a maximum of about 38,000 files per call.
JdBP> That's interesting. From what did you deduce this ?
From an easily reproducible error from a search routine in a DOS
app I wrote years ago, which we had a discussion about two years
or so ago.
I don't recall the details at the moment, but it can be
reproduced at will. A search on a drive with a known number of
files will produce a maximum of xxxx files under OS/2, but yield
all of em under Win or DOS. No error results, just completes
normally, whistling against the lamppost, as if it had produced
everything that was there.
I seem to recall getting an acknowlegement of the problem from
IBM, and indifference as to fixing it.
LRA
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