copyPath API: still error
copyPath API: still error
- Subject: copyPath API: still error
- From: Lorenzo Puleo <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 20:19:19 +0200
Do you remember the API copyPath had a big bug?
It was not able to copy files larger than 1GB. Moreover, the API always
returned YES, while it produced a copy of 0 (zero) bytes.
Well, still now (Jaguar 10.2.1) it has a "new" big bug.
If you copy a file large, say 1GB, and your free RAM is less than 1GB, your
application will use the virtual memory, and, if the free space of your boot
disk is less than 1GB, your machine will freeze. Tried.
I wrote to Apple several times. After releasing Jaguar they told me that the
problem had been fixed. I replied that the problem was still there.
Sincerely I can't understand a big and fine (I think the finest) company
like Apple, still now, releases an API with such a big bug. Moreover, the
Finder has not this bug copying large files, so I think it should be good to
put the same routine inside the "copyPath" API.
How could a Cocoa developer work well with such big bugs?
Also, I will write again about bugs on symLinks, Cocoa APIs, file
permissions...
Apple, I love you for 14 years, but please behave properly with your
developers.
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Lorenzo Puleo
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