Re: a perl script crashed my mac!

ioneabu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

It is likely that the problem was caused by attempting to unlink a
directory.  I don't know if the crash would have occurred if I was not
working on the external drive.

I tried deleting a directory various different ways on my internal hd using Perl's unlink() function, and I couldn't cause such a crash. Nor was I surprised at that - frankly, I would have been surprised if such a heinous bug *was* present in the core OS.

It's much more likely to be a bug in either the USB2 driver or the file system driver.

Is the external device a "dual purpose" device that works on both Mac OS X and Windows? If so, it's probably using FAT32. If that turns out to be the case, and you don't care about Windows support, try reformatting the drive with HFS+.

Otherwise, try repeating your experiment on an internal and/or Firewire drive (if you have one).

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