From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Stephen Tyler <stephen(at)stephen-tyler(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #5166: readdir() failure on Mac OS-X is HFS "feature" |
Date: | 2009-11-05 15:28:51 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f070911050728p48aa91f9j812b52479e1d4026@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Stephen Tyler" <stephen(at)stephen-tyler(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane replied:
>> This is a known bug in Snow Leopard --- readdir() calls fail after having
>> deleted a file in the directory. We are hoping that Apple fixes it in
>> 10.6.2, because trying to kluge around it seems like a mess.
>
>> 2) It appears to be a "feature" of HFS on OS-X, rather than a "bug":
>> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21420?viewlocale=en_US
>
> Please notice that that document refers to 10.0. If it's not a Snow
> Leopard bug, why has the behavior changed from every prior OSX release?
I don't think there is much doubt that this is a bug, however much
Apple might like to rebrand it as a feature. The interesting question
is whether they're likely to fix it, or just leave everyone in the
entire universe to patch around a stupid behavior that is present in
their, and only their, implementation. If it's the latter, there's no
reason for us to be the last ones on board.
...Robert
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