Re: [gccsdk] fgets problem/Unixlib

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:06:57PM +0000, Lee Noar wrote:
> I tried the test binaries, both dynamic and static, with RISC OS running
> in rpcemu. They both worked as expected. When you say that there is an
> infinite loop, do you get:

As a warning, UnixLib's behaviour is quite sensitive to the underlying filing
system.

I have a port of git, which doesn't work due to filename issues. It turns
out it has completely different filename issues on RAMFS and HostFS on
rpcemu (0.8.9 Mac, RO5.21 of recent vintage). I haven't followed everything
through to work out the full details, but the final error (from git-add)
that happens on HostFS is it tries to open() a file in a nonexistent
directory. git's code will look for ENOENT, backtrack, create the directory
and try again. On RAMFS this works OK (the code later falls over
elsewhere). On HostFS open() returns EOPSYS, the git error checking code
doesn't know what to do with this, and so falls over. HostFS is returning a
different error from FileCore, UnixLib isn't matching on that, and so it
returns a UnixLib-specific errno.

So always worth testing on a range of filing systems, because behaviours can
differ.

Theo

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