On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:23 AM Michael Lueck <mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com>
wrote:

> Greeting Rick,
>
> Rick McGuire wrote:
> > If anybody would like to help out with this effort, contributing tests
> for rexxutil functions would be an excellent way to chip in.
>
> I added some of the RexxUtil functions. So please let me know how I may
> assist in contributing test cases for those functions.
>
> Take a look at what functions we are missing test cases for, or even don't
have many cases for in the test suite and pick one. You might want to post
a notice here when you start work on tests for a functions to avoid someone
else duplicating your work.


> Also, on SysFileTree... you seem to have done much work on that function
> which is one of my personal favorites. A long long time ago now... prior to
> me doing major cleanup on our file server, doing a
> SysFileTree call against the entire collection of files would crash the
> function.
>
> "#973 SysFileTree causes Segmentation fault"
> https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/973/
>
> Seems now that I have looked it back up, Mark did find something wrong...
> not that it was closed as un-reproducible. Unfortunately I had already done
> the major cleanup on our file server, so at that
> time I could not say if what Mark did resolved the problem.
>
> Perhaps if I were to mount the share to our file server to several mount
> points I could get back up to the number of objects that used to cause the
> crash. /mnt/ldslnx01/data, /mnt/ldslnx01/data2, etc...
>
> Thoughts, or do you think what Mark resolved back then resolved a crash
> trying to build a file tree of too many objects?
>
> I don't really know if Mark resolved this crash or not, but the
SysFileTree code has been completely rewritten with my version. One of the
goals of the rewrite was to avoid those sorts of crashes, so hopefully this
problem is dead-and-buried.

Rick

> I am thankful,
>
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