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pragma
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 Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: Alpha Bugs |
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The current Alpha has the following quirks:
- Can't cope with a variety of exceptions. The program will abort rather than gracefully recover from a variety of situations (read on). This flaw may be causing a resource leak.
- My editing application (Textpad) sometimes holds a file handle after Watcher has been notified. This causes Watcher to throw an exception after attempting to acquire a handle for that particular file. This problem may manifest with other apps.
- I made a false assumption about how "STOR" works under FTP. Apparently, the command does not allow paths (eg. "STOR foo/bar.d" returns a 5xx message) so only the root mapped directory will work correctly (sorry). 
- Password shown on-screen. Presently, there is no clean way to read in console text w/o showing the typed characters on the screen. Just make sure nobody is looking over your shoulder when you launch the program. 
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Carlos
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: Re: Alpha Bugs |
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| pragma wrote: | | - Password shown on-screen. Presently, there is no clean way to read in console text w/o showing the typed characters on the screen. Just make sure nobody is looking over your shoulder when you launch the program. |
I could be wrong, but I think one of the C getc* functions read without echoing. |
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pragma
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Alpha Bugs |
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| Carlos wrote: | | pragma wrote: | | - Password shown on-screen. Presently, there is no clean way to read in console text w/o showing the typed characters on the screen. Just make sure nobody is looking over your shoulder when you launch the program. |
I could be wrong, but I think one of the C getc* functions read without echoing. |
An excellent tip. Here's what I managed to find:
http://www.digitalmars.com/rtl/conio.html
Looks like we have getch() under DMC, so surely its available in D. Now for the test:
| Code: | import std.stdio;
extern(C) int getch();
void main(){
char ch;
char[] str;
do{
ch = getch();
str ~= ch;
}
while(ch != '\r' && ch != '\n');
writefln("?s\n",str);
} |
This works wonderfully. Thanks Carlos.
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Carlos
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 9:39 am Post subject: |
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| No problem. |
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pragma
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: Re: Alpha Bugs |
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Bugfixes
- Subdirectories now work correctly in all cases.
- Passwords are read blindly from standard input only (no text is echoed unless you build Watcher in debug mode).
The changes are available in SVN.
Outstanding Bugs
- Apps that hold file handles after notification will cause watcher to fail
- Watcher cannot handle FTP "550" messages intellegently. "File already exists" and the like will cause watcher to fail.
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