27764 - directory viewer sporadic on win32 root dirs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 29250

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Waterson]

On Win32, typing "file:///c:/" into the URL bar produces an empty directory 
listing (for me; jud reports a partial listing that doesn't always reflect 
changes to the drive's contents). This is distinctly different from bug 17586, 
which was an XP problem with any directory.

I'm going to do initial investigation: I'm suspicious that URL parsing may be 
barfing in this case.

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

PDT: is this beta-blocker worthy? (help me triage and set dates. thanks!)

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

could try the ls.js which lives in xpcom/tests/utils using the xptshell?  That 
would eliminate url parsing and layout/rdf as the culprits.

Comment 3

[Brad Nixon]

This seems to be limited to the C drive for me. "c:\" won't work, but
"c:\windows" will work fine. Other drives on my machine, such as the "a:\"
floppy and "m:\" and "n:\" network drives, display ok.

Comment 4

[Brad Nixon]

Sorry, correction: the "a:\" listing doesn't work either, and neither does
"d:\", the CDROM drive. So, since the network drives work, maybe this is just
confined to local drives...I'll check on another machine with more hard drives
later and report. (If network drives work and local drives don't, that to me
would point to parsing problems, since the network drives are mapped).

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

waterson, didn't you just checkin a fix for something that sounds alot like what 
[e-mail] is refering too?

Comment 6

[Chris Waterson]

Yeah, I checked in a fix for this. See bug 29250.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29250 ***

Comment 7

[Matt Perry]

Verified duplicate.