Re: [TCLCORE] Bugginess of [fcopy]
by Jeff Hobbs other posts by this author
Mar 29 2008 12:48PM messages near this date
[TCLCORE] Bugginess of [fcopy]
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Re: [TCLCORE] Bugginess of [fcopy]
Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
> After some remarks on c.l.t about [fcopy]'s "known bugs", I'm
> wondering: is it true ?
> I looked for "fcopy" in the Tracker, and was surprised to find 4 still
> opened bugs with [fcopy] in their title !
> Of these four, three are somewhat negligible:
>
> [ 1350564 ] Inadequate fcopy operation --> rather a feature request
> (allowing fileevents in the reverse direction)
>
> [ 1557855 ] fcopy doesn't handle large sizes --> are you routinely
> using -size>2G ?
>
> [ 719790 ] fcopy -command hangs in Win NT4 --> I guess it works on XP,
> otherwise that one would have driven a torrent of complaints... or
> would it ?
>
> *But* this one:
>
> [ 780533 ] [fcopy] callback sometimes fails to trigger
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> is really scary, sufficiently random to be hard to isolate, hence
> easily discarded by beginners deciding "I really don't get that event
> stuff, let's work around"...
>
> Could it be that very same thing that from time to time a random user
> mentions as "fcopy known to be buggy" ?
>
> Why is it so low-priority ? (The last update in the Tracker is 4 years
> old, and the priority level is "5").
Can you provide a reproducible test case?
Jeff
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