Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!ken From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Query for the Net Message-ID: <15983@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 20 Nov 90 17:03:52 GMT References: <1990Nov12.154623.2287@clinet.fi> <21683@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Nov16.201320.4842@servalan.uucp> <146@screamer.csee.usf.edu> <15941@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 16 In article ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes: > >SAS bug of the month club: >Open a file that already exists. Now try an access(file,0) call to see >if it exists. It doesn't exist? No? Go look in the directory. Sure 'nuff, >it's there. Looks to me like someone said: "Lock() failed? Doesn't exist!" >without checking the return value to see if the "object was in use". Have you considered sending bug reports (along with sample code) to SAS? Or are you just going to complain that it is broken? Developers can only fix problems that: 1) they know about, and 2) they can reproduce. -- -- Ken Farinsky - CATS - (215) 431-9421 - Commodore Business Machines uucp: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com or ...{uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax!ken bix: kfarinsky