segmentation error: wopen

[bhalterm]

wopen in the File class gives a segmentation error with long path names.

[ted]

To us help reproduce the problem, could you please provide an example that generates the error, and mention which version of NEURON and under what OS this occurred?

[bhalterm]

When the following code is saved in a file and run with nrniv,

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begintemplate Results
    public translate
    
    proc translate() { localobj file
    
        file = new File()	
        file.wopen("/Users/benlhalt/NEURON/debugnet/translated_results/septohippo_lfp_threadsafe_06-29-09_02;30;42/septohippo_lfp_threadsafe_06-29-09_02;30;42_runtime=3.56_nthread=1/raster_for_septohippo_lfp_threadsafe_06-29-09_02;30;42_run_spike_trains_for_septohippo_lfp_threadsafe_06-29-09_02;30;42_runtime=3.56_nthread=1.txt")
        
        print "open = ", file.isopen()
        
        file.printf("hello")
    }
    
endtemplate Results

objref results
results = new Results()
{ results.translate() }

Then this is the output:

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NEURON -- Release 7.0 (281:80827e3cd201) 80827e3cd201
Duke, Yale, and the BlueBrain Project -- Copyright 1984-2008
See http://www.neuron.yale.edu/credits.html

nrniv(58664) malloc: *** error for object 0x7465f0: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed.
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
open = 1 
nrniv(58664) malloc: *** error for object 0x7465f0: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed.
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

It only happens when the code is in a file arg to nrniv, not when the commands are typed directly into the interpreter. The error occurs depending on the length of the path, whether or not the path is valid. A shorter path produces no error. With a longer, valid path, the code actually opens the file and writes to it, but then a segmentation error occurs (no malloc message) at an unpredictable time... either after the code executed, or after I tried to quit using CTRL-D.
I'm running OS X 10.5.7 on a macbook pro.

[hines]

There was a limit of 256 characters (without the macro substitutions). The length
is now unlimited from the perspective of NEURON. There may be an OS limit.
See
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/hg/neuron/nr ... f06f8195ac
I made a new dmg for the mac at
http://www.neuron.yale.edu/ftp/neuron/versions/alpha/

[bhalterm]

Thank you!