[Cuis-dev] FileEntry fileContents hangs on macOS Alias file

[Bernhard Pieber]

Hi,

I tripped over a macOS alias file which has only 1172 bytes but whose contents cannot be shown in a file list in the latest Cuis7.5-7384.image. The cursor turns into an hourglass and I need to interrupt Cuis with Cmd-Dot.

I attached a zipped directory with the bad file and a good alias file to compare. To reproduce do:

(DirectoryEntry userBaseDirectory / 'alias_test' // 'good') fileContents size. 1222 .
(DirectoryEntry userBaseDirectory / 'alias_test' // 'bad') fileContents size. „hangs"

Is this a bug or a feature?

If I use binaryContents it does not hang but answers a size of 0 which also seems false to me as the file contains 1172 bytes. How can I get those into a ByteArray?

(DirectoryEntry userBaseDirectory / 'alias_test' // 'good') binaryContents size. 1228 .
(DirectoryEntry userBaseDirectory / 'alias_test' // 'bad') binaryContents size. 0.

I could reproduce it on another Mac.

Cheers,
Bernhard

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