posix.listdir() broken ?

Steven D. Majewski (sdm7g@elvis.med.virginia.edu)
Thu, 4 Nov 1993 12:56:59 -0500

On my build of Python 0.9.9 on AIX, posix.listdir()
( and I think maybe a few other posix functions )
is broken:

Python 0.9.9 (Sep 7 1993).
Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum,
Amsterdam
>>> import posix
>>> posix.listdir( '' )
Segmentation fault(coredump)
elvis: /home/sdm7g/python $ python
Python 0.9.9 (Sep 7 1993).
Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum,
Amsterdam
>>> import posix
>>> posix.listdir( '.' )
Segmentation fault(coredump)
elvis: /home/sdm7g/python $

Has anyone else observed a problem ? or is my build on AIX
merely but profoundly broken ?

- Steve M.

- Steve Majewski (804-982-0831) <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU>
- UVA Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics