232058 - hang when opening a directory for an attachment when that directory contains a very long file name with an non ascii character ó

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[James Dow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I am not sure whether or not it was the length of the file name which contained
around twenty words separated by blanks or it was the non-ascii character ó that
caused the file browser in mozilla to hang the program. The directory was not
opened and mozilla stopped. On investigation of the pecularity of that
directory, the long file name with the non-ascii character was discovered. The
non-ascii character was removed, and the file name was shortened. Then, mozilla
could open the directory.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put a long-named file with blanks and non-ascii characters in the name in a
directory.
2. Try to open that directory to find a mail attachment.
3.



Expected Results:  
It should have opened the directory.
Note that this bug was reported automatically by Bugzilla, but the cause was
discovered later.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

what's your locale? (LANG environment variable, or LC_CTYPE if set)

also, could you try mozilla 1.6? iirc that bug was fixed in that version by
jshin or bz

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Probably a dup of bug 225125

Comment 3

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