Yes, the implementation of fileExists: was changed, so it no longer iterates 
over entire directory contents, but tries to open the file. Sadly, the Unix vm 
contains a bug which means relative links will not be resolved correctly. 
A fix from Cog has been submitted, but no release has been made which obtains 
it yet.

Cheers,
Henry

Den 30. juli 2010 kl. 23:09 skrev Chris Muller <[email protected]>:

> To run the test-suite for Magma 1.1r2 in Pharo:
> 
> - Proceed past two warnings about "FlapTab" when loading Magma.
> - Revert FileDirectory>>#fileExists: to the prior version.
> - Remove #testClassSchemaUpgrades.
> - Load OSProcess.
> 
> The second and third steps, above, I believe may be regressions in Pharo 1.1.
> 
> In Pharo 1.1:
> 
>    FileDirectory default fileExists:  '/bin/sh'    "---> false"
> 
> but the file does, indeed, exist as a soft-link.  Squeak answers true
> and, I'll bet, so does Pharo 1.0, so I'm not sure if there is a
> problem here or not.
> 
> #testClassSchemaUpgrades tests Magma's ability to keep up with
> class-schema changes in the image.  Usually class-schemas change only
> in development, not production systems so maybe it's not a big deal.
> But still, it can be very convenient develop new class schemas while
> connected to a persistent Magma store.  Magma makes use of the
> SystemChangeNotifier to do this.  I don't know if Pharo cleaned
> something with SystemChangeNotifier or a regression happened, but I
> don't have time to debug it right now.  Certainly, if there is a
> problem with Magma I will fix it, but I'm not convinced of that yet.
> 
> - Chris
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