On 10/31/2010 04:52 PM, A2Aviator wrote:
I wish there were something with any of that A2 support that was used on classic Macs, that way they could be called on the carpet for breaking functionality instead of maintaining a proper working package.
That would be helpful. It's not that they try to break things, just that they do not consider A2 users to be of enough importance to actually test code changes for regression. The AFP "short name" support (ProDOS 8) was always a poor cousin, but at least the patch was accepted when I sent it in - 12 years ago.
Whatever is broken this time is probably simple, but I suspect that fixing it will involve the server keeping track of the type of client and using different logic for maintaining file date depending on whether it's "conventional" or "short name". That may or may not be so simple, depending upon the data structures available.
I found a note to myself in the last file date patch (on the A2 list with my version of 2.0.5) about something making a final set-attribute call with no data under p8. Will have to do some work to recapture my thought process and understanding of the code.
Steve