[B2-devel] extfs bugs in SheepShaver for Intel Macs

[Joshua J. <jj...@gm...>]

Greetings.

First of all, thanks to the developers for what I'm sure has been a  
lot of hard work.  I just got a new iMac and am delighted to have a  
classic Mac OS box running on it.

Now, onto the bugs:

I'm running SheepShaver 2.3-Pre (2006/05/14) for MacOS X Intel,  
booting 8.5 with the ROM from ROM Update 1.0.

The "Unix" volume doesn't show up in the Finder or Standard File.  I  
was surprised to discover that I was actually able to access it using  
one of my own utilities.  I haven't checked this out yet, but maybe  
the root directory has the Invisible bit set.

I then noticed that I had to encode files (e.g. using MacBinary) in  
order to get them through the extfs translation unscathed.  It turns  
out that SheepShaver is not byte-swapping the type and creator codes,  
so TEXT files become TXET, APPLications are LPPA, etc.  Hilarity  
ensues.  Perhaps the invisible volume problem is byte-order-related  
as well.

I don't know if this is related, but a different utility of mine was  
getting volume-not-found errors (OSErr -35) when calling FindFolder()  
to get the Temporary Items folder (on the 'appropriate' volume, not  
"Unix").  My workaround is not to call FindFolder().  I now have my  
build tool running inside SheepShaver!  :-)

Again, thanks for the amazing work.  You probably won't hear this  
from me as often as you deserve it, but please bear in mind that I  
only report bugs in the first place on projects that have earned my  
respect and admiration, which this one certainly has.

Josh