Re: GUPP 1.02 released. Another bug in 601's Finder squashed

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4sics6$iip@blackice.winternet.com>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@parka.winternet.com> wrote:
>Well, after quite a while of hunting, I got _one_ bug in the System
>6.0.1 Finder isolated and killed. [Not sure if this one was the cause
>of the other problems I could sorta reproduce.] 

   Wow. I've done a bunch more testing, and I think that what looked
like two different bugs were killed with one patch. I'm not totally
sure on it (could only reproduce it about 50% of the time, so even
after about 8-10 tries to reproduce it, there's still a chance it's
been real lucky). The various bugs were:

A: (Harder to reproduce and prove its source). Icon list would get
blasted with lots of icons installed. Symptoms: small icons for
certain files would be drawn with the large generic 'document' icon,
information in 'Get Info' windows could be full of garbage

B: (Isolated and killed by GUPP 1.02). Finder would stomp over
memory randomly. [Something being passed in lied about the size of
an array... I prevent it from walking off the end of a handle.] 
Symptoms: finder would crash on startup, while looking at various
disks, opening windows, etc.

   A may be a more subtle version of B... instead of crashing, the
Finder would only display garbage later.

   Anyhow, I haven't been able to reproduce either in the times
since installing GUPP 1.02. [I did notice its preventing the Finder
from walking off handles did slow down loading a little with lots
of icons. I've got some ideas that should be able to make that
almost unnoticeable... 1.03 might be out in the next few days]

   Anyone who reported Finder crashiness to me when I called for bug
reports last week should definitely give 1.02 a try.

Nathan Mates
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