Re: [MiNT] couldn't match a drive with a directory

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 00:31 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm experiencing the following bug for several monthes.
> I compile any program with a recent MiNTLib.
> 
> I run it on EasyMiNT, with FreeMiNT 1.16.
> In TeraDesk, I open a window in the directory containing my program, from 
> the specific drive, let's say "C:\mydir".
> XaAES displays a warning at startup with:
> pid 123 (myprog): unifs:
> couldn't match a drive with a directory
> 
> If I run the same program from U:\c\mydir, I get no warning.
> 
> Also, this does not happen with new kernels 1.17.
> 
> If I run old programs in the same way with MiNT 1.16, I have no warnings, too.
> 
> There is no real problem right now, since everything works well with all-new 
> stuff. But since the behaviour of new programs has changed on old kernels, 
> there may be a regression in the MiNTLib or somewhere else.

Running new programs on old kernels is never guaranteed. They may be
taking advantage of new system calls that don't exist in older kernels.

Alan.