Re: My list of System 6.01 bugs

[Jim Murphy <murph@apple.com>]

In article <CAv21E.778@wave.scar.utoronto.ca> TAO BRIAN T,
     90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca writes:
>    I think I've run into that bug.  I was comparing the sizes of some
>of my SEA's in the Finder (to see how much room I saved), then I tried
>to delete them.  I got a File Is Open/Busy/In Use error when I tried to
>empty the trash.  This bug must be new to System 6.01...


     If you have some relatively reproducible case, I'd love to hear it.
In normal operations the Finder tries very hard to close the resource
fork of files that you are doing Icon Info on, even if something really
bad happens in the process. Offhand, I don't see any holes where a file
wouldn't get closed, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

     BTW, from Nifty List you can't close files (that's what the GS/OS
Excerciser is for), but you can see what fork is still open. With the
Goodies command "\files", you'll get a list of all open files in the
system, along with other useful information. If the value for your file
under the "fork" column is not $0001, then the resource fork isn't what's
still open. In that case Finder wasn't the one that opened the file in the
first place, since it has no need to look into a file's data fork during
an Icon Info.


Jim Murphy                                                 murph@apple.com

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