I asked you to post your code that manipulates the path. You still
haven't done it. Instead you showed something that obviously isn't
in your actual app.
I **did** paste the code that is in my app. There *isn't* any code
that manipulates a path. I've typed literal strings exactly like I
showed in both posts including the original, and I get bdNamError. I'm
not just assuming willy nilly that the paths are what I think they
are, I gave a specific example that I tested.
Furthermore, I just ran the *exact* same code you pasted with the
*exact* same path. It does not work. bdNamErr.
**That** is the mystery.
It most certainly is a valid path. The colon is not a path separator
it's part of the filename.
You forgot to add: "...in the context of POSIX/BSD. HFS calls have a
different convention. At the intersection, for example in Quicktime,
extra care is required."
The code I included specified POSIX. That's all the context that's
needed.
Just because Finder special-cases colons to display them to as
slashes (a concession made, I believe, to early Classic adopters),
that doesn't mean HFS calls are happy to see mixed colons and slashes.
Stepping into CreateMovieStorage(), I see many HFS calls,
ResolveAliasWithMountFlags(), PBMakeFSSpecSync(), et al. Could there
be some combination of HFS API that get confused when your
"perfectly legit" but rather unusual paths are converted variously
to HFS paths, Pascal strings, legacy FSSpecs, aliases, aliases
resolved back to FSSpecs...
Error -37 bnNamErr is telling you: yes, there is.
....... and *that's a bug* ..........
I don't supply the data reference with an HFS path with a colon in it,
I supply it with a *valid* **POSIX** path. If the function that then
uses the data reference spazzes because it doesn't handle the POSIX
path properly, that's not my fault. It's a bug, and that's all I was
trying to confirm.
I appreciate your replies, but I didn't leave any code out, and I
provided absolutely nothing but valid claims and supporting evidence.
--
Seth Willits
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