Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Perverse bug with gec?

[Emmanuel S. [ES] <ma...@ei...>]

use strace on linux to see the system calls.

Manu 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gob...@li... 
> [mailto:gob...@li...] On 
> Behalf Of Eric Bezault
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:42 AM
> To: Colin Paul Adams
> Cc: gob...@li...
> Subject: Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Perverse bug with gec?
> 
> Eric Bezault wrote:
> > Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> >>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> >>
> >>     Eric> If you were using files the Gobo way, you would 
> get "False"
> >>     Eric> with the following code:
> >>
> >>     Eric>   local l_file: KL_TEXT_INPUT_FILE do create l_file.make
> >>     Eric> ("dummy") l_file.open_read print (l_file.is_open_read)
> >>
> >>     Eric> However, using files the ISE way, you will not get the
> >>     Eric> exception as expected.
> >>
> >> I don't really understand any of that:
> >>
> >> 1) This is all Gobo code, using the file resolver.
> >> 2) How is gec managing to open the upper-case file in the first 
> >> place, when it has a lower-case name?
> > 
> > Ah, you said that you didn't get the error message, but I didn't 
> > realize that it meant that it was actually able to read the file. I 
> > have no idea why it manages to open the file. And I can't 
> try it on a 
> > small example since I don't have access to a Linux or other 
> > case-sensitive operating system. It's too bad that SourceForge does 
> > not offer its compile-farm anymore. As far as I can see, 
> the code ends 
> > up calling fopen(). I don't know if there is an option to make it 
> > case-insensitive or case_sensitive at will.
> 
> I can see one difference between ISE and Gobo when opening 
> the file under Linux/Unix. When opening a binary file, Gobo 
> does "rb" (same as Windows) whereas ISE does "r"
> for the mode. I guess this is the problem. I will fix that 
> and we will see how it goes. In the meantime I'd be 
> interested if you could have a look at the manpage for 
> fopen() on Linux and see if there is anything specified for 
> "rb" (like "open the file in case-insensitive mode" ;-)).
> 
> --
> Eric Bezault
> mailto:er...@go...
> http://www.gobosoft.com
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