System information

Dock

The Dock provides a convenient graphical interface for launching applications and organizing frequently used items.

A problem where an application's dock tile image was not being set to its original image when the application quit

(after it was set to a custom image by a call to SetApplicationDockTileImage) has been corrected. Now, the image is

restored to its original image as expected. (r. 2738381).

File Systems

This section discusses changes and improvements in the file systems installed with Mac OS X 10.2.

AFP

Apple's implementation of AFP (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) over TCP server that allows AppleShare clients to connect and

access files.

Improved the security of the password changing mechanism. (r. 2818447).

Previously, if you connected to the server using the admistrator's long name, you would not see the user's home

directory. This has been fixed. (r. 2800012).

Revised the AFP protocol to support more than 16 bits worth of items in a folder. (r. 2757392).

Due to problems displaying UTF-8 messages (such as disconnect messages) on the client, the server now only

sends messages in old-style script encodings. (r. 2971846).

Personal File Sharing now supports the ability to turn off guest access via NetInfo--there is no user interface for

this. (r. 2949059).

Fixed problem where the AFP client was always using the ByteRangeLock call instead of ByteRangeLockExt even on

AFP 3.0 or newer servers. (r. 2936968).

Copying a file from a Mac OS X AFP server to a Mac OS 9.x AFP server while the current time zone is observing

Daylight Saving Time could cause the destination copy to have its modification time set off by one hour. This could

happen if the file being copied had a modification time when DST was not in effect. This problem has now been fixed.

(r. 2892452).

mount_afp no longer requires a password embedded on the command line. Instead, it accepts an afp:// URL and

prompts separately for the password. (r. 2886847).

Fixed a problem where PBGetCatInfo could return the wrong number of files in the root directory of an AFP

volume. (r. 2883190).

The modification time of a file on an AFP server was reported relative to the clock on the client system. This has

been changed to use the time reported on the server. This prevents the modification time from changing simply

because of clock skew between the client and server. (r. 2877917).

Fixed a problem where certain folders could not be copied from a Mac OS 9 AFP server to a client Mac OS X system

with the primary language set to Simplified Chinese. (r. 2872906).

The API function AFPSortSharedVolumes was not being properly exported, causing link errors if that function was

referenced. (r. 2858101).

The AFP client now logs various events to the system log file in addition to providing user notification of the events.

These events are: umount failures, idle disconnects, reconnect attempts, and whether session will show true vs.

mapped permissions. (r. 2848604).

Fixed a problem where FSGetCatalogInfoBulk would return incorrect permissions on mounted AppleShare volumes

while FSGetCatalogInfo and lstat would return the correct values. (r. 2832434).

The AFP server now handles non-ASCII characters in file names better. (r. 2803650).

The AFP server now correctly handles UFS boot volumes with traditional Mac OS clients. (r. 2797781).