Subj : Bug in internal DosFindF
To   : Jonathan De Boyne Pollar
From : Lee Aroner
Date : Wed Apr 04 2001 07:58 am

 LA>> The DOS support in OS/2 does appear to use a badly written 
 LA>> FindFirst/FindNext call, however it has a serious bug that 
 LA>> results in a return of a maximum of about 38,000 files per call.

JdBP>  JdBP>> That's interesting.  From what did you deduce this ?

 LA> From an easily reproducible error from a search routine in a DOS    
 LA> app I wrote years ago, which we had a discussion about two years    
 LA> or so ago.

JdBP> We did ?  I don't remember that.  Was it in this echo ?  What was the 
thread 
    > subject ?


   As I recall, it was in the general OS/2 echo, but maybe not. 
   (Getting old sucks...).

   Seems to me it came up as part of a discussion about using the 
   DOS FCB hack for mass deletions. At least that was what I joined 
   in for...

   If I get a chance in the next day or 2 (and don't forget), I'll 
   run the app on one of my drives and see if I can figure out where 
   the wall is.

                                       LRA


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