Re: Bug in NSUser.m - NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains()

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 02:06 PM, Roland Schwingel wrote:

> > But ...  the -fileExistsAtPath: method is supposed to return YES if 
> > the
> > path specifies a directory.
> For me it returns here (on windows) NO if it is a directory and not a
> file...
> > So, if it's returning NO, there is a bug in the -fileExistsAtPath:
> > implementation rather than a bug
> > in respect of whether it is used or -fileExistsAtPath:isDirectory: is
> > used.
> It would also be a way to fix it...
>
> > In fact, since -fileExistsAtPath: is implemented as a call to
> > -fileExistsAtPath:isDirectory:, I can't
> > see how your patch can possibly fix any problem there might be.
> In my patch I call
> [fm fileExistsAtPath: path isDirectory:&isDir]
> for files the method returns NO and isDir is also NO. For directories 
> the
> method returns NO and isDir is set to YES.

Are you using an old version of the base library, or one where you
have hacked the -fileExistsAtPath:isDirectory: method yourself?

Looking at the code in CVS, it appears to be impossible for it to set
the flag to YES and return NO.