Bugs (was Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream)

2002-06-16 Thread Jim Pick
I agree 100% with what Dalibor just said. Bug reporting systems work OK sometimes, depending on the situation, but I think the type of bugs submitted against Kaffe tend to be of a nature where they tend to get lost in such a system. I'm going to try hard to personally keep a bug queue (in my ema

"Freeze" (was Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream)

2002-06-16 Thread Jim Pick
> As an aside, I think we need some sort of process for checking in > patches during a "freeze" like this. Perhaps if two additional people > sign off on it, and there are no other comments for two days then the > patch can be checked in? I did a branch for the release "Release_1_0_7_Branch", so

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-14 Thread Jukka Santala
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Unless of course you are using reflection to lookup > the constructor that throws IOException. But > reflection is not part of JDK 1.1, so no self > respecting JDK 1.1 app should be using it ;) It is not? Certainly it's part of the JDK 1.1 API spec http

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Patrick Tullmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jukka wrote: > I think the way the libraries have been written to > this point, is to > follow the most recent available spec as much as > possible. I think Yes, as far as I'm concerned ;) > trying to support different versions of the JDK spec >

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Jukka Santala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Patrick Tullmann wrote: > > I fixed this, and some related problems on > FileOutputStream (its > > constructors were throwing IOException when they > may only throw > > FileNotFoundException, and a 1.4 constructor > taking (File,

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-10 Thread Patrick Tullmann
Jukka wrote: > JDK 1.1 API has the constructors only throwing IOException, though; > since Kaffe doesn't support full Java2, it is more likely to be ran > with JDK 1.1 applications. Actually, I didn't change the exception signature of the constructors. There was already code that mapped any IOExc

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
hi Patrick, --- Patrick Tullmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This strikes me as something that Mauve should have > tests for (its > more of a class library problem than a VM-specific > problem). Can > anyone who has played with Mauve look and see if > this is a simple > addition to that test su

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-10 Thread Jukka Santala
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Patrick Tullmann wrote: > I fixed this, and some related problems on FileOutputStream (its > constructors were throwing IOException when they may only throw > FileNotFoundException, and a 1.4 constructor taking (File, boolean) > was missing). I expanded your test case a bit, t

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-09 Thread Patrick Tullmann
> I've got the same problem here, and I'll look into a fix (hopefully > it will be a simple fix). I fixed this, and some related problems on FileOutputStream (its constructors were throwing IOException when they may only throw FileNotFoundException, and a 1.4 constructor taking (File, boolean) wa

Re: [kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-09 Thread Patrick Tullmann
Hi Martin, Thanks for putting together a nice small example for demonstrating the problem! I've got the same problem here, and I'll look into a fix (hopefully it will be a simple fix). This strikes me as something that Mauve should have tests for (its more of a class library problem than a VM-s

[kaffe] Bug in FileInputStream

2002-06-09 Thread Martin Lackner
Hi, I've a problem with kaffe (version 1.0.7-rc1) on an i686 system with Red Hat 7.1. I reduced the failure to the following small example. import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.File; public class KaffeFile { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { File