Subj : Bug in internal DosFindF
To : Jonathan De Boyne Pollar
From : Lee Aroner
Date : Wed Apr 04 2001 07:58 am
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> JdBP>> That's interesting. From what did you deduce this ?
LA> From an easily reproducible error from a search routine in a DOS
LA> app I wrote years ago, which we had a discussion about two years
LA> or so ago.
JdBP> We did ? I don't remember that. Was it in this echo ? What was the
thread
> subject ?
As I recall, it was in the general OS/2 echo, but maybe not.
(Getting old sucks...).
Seems to me it came up as part of a discussion about using the
DOS FCB hack for mass deletions. At least that was what I joined
in for...
If I get a chance in the next day or 2 (and don't forget), I'll
run the app on one of my drives and see if I can figure out where
the wall is.
LRA
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