Retrying with a different sender address to make sure it gets delivered at the apr list.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bert Huijben [mailto:rhuij...@collab.net] > Sent: maandag 15 juni 2015 14:04 > To: d...@apr.apache.org > Cc: Stephen White; dev@subversion.apache.org > Subject: [Patch] apr_file_path_merge returns incorrect truepath on certain > 'short paths' on Windows > > Hi, > > In the last few months we got two reports from Subversion users that > passing certain short paths to 'svn' failed for them. > > E.g. > [[ > > mkdir ALongName.impl > > dir /x > ... > 27/03/2015 12:50 <DIR> ALONGN~1.IMP ALongName.impl > ]] > And then passing this 'ALONGN~1.IMP' path works just fine. > > While > [[ > > mkdir api.impl > > dir /x > ... > 27/03/2015 12:52 <DIR> API~1.IMP api.impl > ... > ]] > And then passing the 'API~1.IMP' path doesn't (uses api.implP) > (Samples copied from a mail from Stephen White to dev@subversion.a.o) > > The problem here is that the short path is actually longer than the long > path. which triggers a bug in APR's truename code that we use. In this > specific case the length of the updated path is not properly updated, to > reflect the shorter total path length. > > > When trying to write a testcase for this issue I found that Windows > disables short path generation on user created NTFS filesystems these > days. Only on system partition the default setup enables short path > creation. (An admin can enable short paths via something like 'fsutil > 8dot3name set R: 1', or a flag can be passed to format.exe) > > The attached patch fixes the problem, which appears to be specific for the > last path component (saveslash = FALSE). > > > I would like to see this problem fixed in apr 1.5. > > The attached patch applies directly to 1.5.x and trunk. > > Thanks, > Bert
