219410 - crash when trying to add an attachment from a directory with more than 30 characters (in name)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Henrik Pihl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030916

When composing a message in Mail & News and trying to enter a directory, which's
name contains more than 30 characters, to choose a file(s) for attachment, leads
to a full crash of Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start composing a new message
2.start adding an attachment by clicking attach or something
3.go to a directory, which's name contains more than 30 characters

Actual Results:  
The whole Mozilla bundle crashed, no error or nothing, just dissapears.

Expected Results:  
It should have displayed the directory contents, what I wanted to see.

Comment 1

[Waheed Islam]

wfm. however, i'm using a super-old build (20030401 - 1.4a release).
tested using a directory with 114 chars.

henrik: does the directory you are accessing, contain any "special" characters?
such as international chars, or non-ascii -- although, it shouldn't make a
difference.

Comment 2

[Jerry Baker]

I cannot reproduce this using 2003091704 trunk on WinXP. I tried it with a
directory named
"Thisisareallylongdirectorynameformozillatestingsoicanseeifitcrashes".

Comment 3

[Henrik Pihl]

I noticed this when doing Help->About Mozilla:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location:
jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml Line Number
95, Column 15:<li>Copyright &copy; 1998-2003 by <a
href="about:credits">Contributors</a> to 

Though I don't know, whats wrong in this picture.

Comment 4

[Jerry Baker]

I do not see this behavior either, but if it's reproducible it would be a
separate bug.

Comment 5

[Andreas Kunz]

Henrik, you're on Server 2003, right?
Can you still reproduce this bug with Mozilla 1.7b?
If so, please attach a Talkback ID (Talkback is included in the Installer version).

Comment 6

[David G King]

This WFM on Win XP with Mozilla 20040408.

Comment 7

[Adam Hauner]

Similar bug 241168 (Mozilla crashes upon saving file to directory with long
name) was resolved as WFM.

Comment 8

[Andreas Kunz]

WFM (no answer for half a year, bug 241168 is similar and WFM since 1.7b)

Comment 9

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=1ae14bbf007e