Bob Williams <a6a37331@telus.net> writes:


Bob Williams <a6a37331@telus.net> writes:

>
> OCaml version :  3.09.2-9
> Distribution  :  Debian Linux for i386
> Linux kernel  :  2.6.18
>



> Summary of problem: If you call a function from a script, that
> function will raise and catch Unix_error properly.  However, if you
> call the same function interactively from an OCaml toplevel, the
> function will see an exception but will think it is *not* Unix_error.
> A demonstration appears below.

<...>

>
> 	$ ocaml unix.cma bug.cmo
> 	        Objective Caml version 3.09.2
> 	
> 	# Bug.delete_file ();;
> 	Some other error.


I couldn't reproduce that on Debian Sarge (Stable is Sarge as of this
date) neither with

 - Objective Caml version 3.08.3 -- as distributed with Sarge.

nor with

 - Objective Caml version 3.09.2 -- as compiled by me from GODI 2
   months ago.

Are you running Testing or something like this? Since I assume that
exceptions are represented just by integer "tags" at the VM level:
Might there be a library mismatch in your case? (This is a question to
the experts here, since my understanding was that that is prevented by
checksums in the interfaces).

Whatever: If your ocaml comes from Debian (and not from GODI or
similar), I suggest you report a bug to the Debian BTS, too. It woul
be terrible, if we had to live with a buggy OCaml for the next 3 years
:-) after the Etch release.

Regards -- Markus