On 17.06.2015 05:28, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 15.06.2015 16:52, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
>> Great report, thanks Bert.  I'll review.
>
> I verified the patch with trunk on Windows 10/VS2015; looks good.


I went ahead and committed to trunk in r1685929. I'll see about porting
this to 1.5.x.

-- Brane

>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl
>> <mailto:b...@qqmail.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>     Trying yet another e-mail address... Nice that this just bounces
>>     instead of being moderated :(
>>
>>             Bert
>>
>>     > -----Original Message-----
>>     > From: Bert Huijben [mailto:rhuij...@collab.net
>>     <mailto:rhuij...@collab.net>]
>>     > Sent: maandag 15 juni 2015 14:04
>>     > To: d...@apr.apache.org <mailto:d...@apr.apache.org>
>>     > Cc: Stephen White; dev@subversion.apache.org
>>     <mailto: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
>>
>>
>

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