site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Tuesday, November 14, 2006, at 07:14AM, "Thomas Tempelmann" <listuser@tempel.org> wrote:

3. BTW, one site, macosforge.org, announced already a 8.8.1 Darwin release, but it's not available from the apple darwin download pages yet (they only list 8.8). I tried to sign up with that site, even received a login, but my login is not accepted. Is that normal? Does it take a while?

8.8.1 is the latest Intel version of MacOS X 10.4.8 and is either Intel only or is the latest version for the Core 2 Duo machines, I'm not sure which.

4. Lastly, if I should succeed, what's the chances that Apple incorporates the improvements? How would I go about that? I've already filed a bug report about what I plan to fix, but I know of others who files related bug reports years ago and nothing ever changed with the iso 9660 file system.

That's the big question. I don't recall ever seeing Apple publicly acknowledge a submitted fix, though they've been good about acknowledging notification of security issues. This leaves wide open the question as to whether they've ever incorporated a user-supplied Darwin patch back into Mac OS X. I'm not aware of an actual contributor form, so it may be that the open source channel is one way from Apple, but it certainly couldn't hurt. I'm sure Quinn or Terry can be more precise on this. As long as you're in the ISO9660 code, perhaps you could improve support for the Joliet extensions; the Mac OS X code is a bit lacking there, such that CDs burned from PCs are often missing large swaths of files when inserted into a Mac running OS X; the same CDs often show all their files to Macs running Mac OS 9 natively, as there were many free and commercial ISO9660 extensions that did fully support Joliet... William Kucharski kucharsk@mac.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com