520377 - camino fails to reload local file if it is replaced (inode number changes)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[hhaamu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.15pre) Gecko/2009091516 Camino/2.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.15pre) Gecko/2009091516 Camino/2.0b4

Camino says "File Not Found" when a local file is reloaded but it has been replaced with a new file.

Many text editors (e.g. vim) perform saving by writing a new file and replacing the old one.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo "old file" > testing.txt
2. load in Camino with a file:// URL
3. replace file with a new file:
   rm testing.txt && echo "new file" > testing.txt
4. reload with cmd-R
Actual Results:  
File Not Found

Expected Results:  
File reloads successfully

Seems specific to Camino; not in Seamonkey at least.

Workaround: select location bar, press return.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Happens in Camino 2009100200 (2.1pre). Works in Firefox 2 and Firefox 3.5.3, so this probably isn't a Gecko issue (although I'm not sure how it couldn't be -- isn't file:/// handling in Core?).

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I'm confused.  The STR in comment 0 WFM on 10.5.8 with 2.0b4 (as well as with my trunk debug build).

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

Finally got around to test this. The command line STR on comment 0 WFM on 10.5.8 (and Camino 2.1a1pre). I then tested a couple of text & code editors (dashcode.app, SubEthaEdit.app, Smultron) with .txt, .css, .html files and all worked correctly (save file, Open File in Camino, delete file in Finder and empty Trash, save file in text editor, reload in Camino).

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

I've certainly seen this sometimes (using vim to edit files), but I haven't been able to notice a pattern for when it happens.