On Monday 21 February 2005 04:40, you wrote:
> On Saturday 19 February 2005 23:32, Stefan Teleman wrote:

> > 2. The trader does not find any mimetypes.
> This is very interesting.  However the hardcoded mimetypes are
> *clearly* a hack.  Note that I said "wondering who hacked this
> together and why"; I was sure there was a reason for this, but now
> one should find out *why* the trader does not return any matches!
> (Or wait for KDE4's multimedia solution.)

yes, this was a dirty hack. ill find some time to build the arts -g 
and see if i can trace the problem in the trader.

> > 3. The direntry handling changes are for the memory corruption
> > caused by the original implementation.
>
> Again - one should discuss the problems with the original
> implementation in public, and fix them.

> Thanks for posting these reasons.  For the records: With GCC,
> noatun seems to work fine.

yah, i know ... this doesn't seem to happen with GCC, it only happens 
with Forte, specifically in readdir(3C).

--Stefan

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Stefan Teleman          'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'
steleman@nyc.rr.com                          -Monty Python