Subj : Bug in internal DosFindF
To   : Jonathan De Boyne Pollar
From : Lee Aroner
Date : Tue Mar 27 2001 03:57 pm

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


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

   I don't recall the details at the moment, but it can be 
   reproduced at will. A search on a drive with a known number of 
   files will produce a maximum of xxxx files under OS/2, but yield 
   all of em under Win or DOS. No error results, just completes 
   normally, whistling against the lamppost, as if it had produced 
   everything that was there.

   I seem to recall getting an acknowlegement of the problem from 
   IBM, and indifference as to fixing it.


                                       LRA


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