[e-lang] CapTP bug: "search path must not be empty" when identified but not onTheAir

Mark Miller erights at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 01:43:22 EST 2008


On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com> wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2008, at 16:14, Mark Miller wrote:
>  > SturdyRefs are usable, and passable-by-construction, without being
>  > turned into URLs. Don't they need this search-path data for these
>  > other uses?
>
>  Since SturdyRefs are uncalled via the <captp> loader, the search-path
>  could be inserted by <captp> on uncall, and discarded on call
>  (construction).

I hadn't thought of that. Yes, that's probably a good idea.


>  Of course, this is all irrelevant (if I understand correctly) when
>  the introducer has been pre-configured (by props) with an address to
>  bind to, since the search path information is then available before
>  onTheAir.

Yes.


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    --MarkM


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