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Re: [BUG] svnserve aborts on 'svn log' from 1.4.3 client

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu>
Date: 2007-05-31 22:52:25 CEST

Daniel Rall wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 07:44:01AM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>>>>> and it is aborting because **fmt is 'b'. Count is 6, nesting level is 0.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the pattern specified in serve.c:log_cmd line 1557 must have
>>>>> an optional parameter wrong or need one added, but I haven't figured
>>>>> it out yet.
>>>>>
>>>> Just guessing, but is it because the pattern includes an optional
>>>> boolean? We don't support those in ra_svn -- there's no way to indicate
>>>> back to the caller whether the parameter was present or not.
>>> Is there another way to pass an optional boolean? Couldn't the caller
>>> assume some value, in this case FALSE, if the parameter isn't present?
>>>
>> It could, but the parsing code has no way to communicate that back,
>> because it's expecting a svn_boolean_t *. (I mean, I suppose it _could_
>> just not touch the value and rely on the caller to set the default
>> _first_, but that would be different to how we handle other optional
>> types.
>>
>> I think for other cases we may have transmitted a boolean inside an
>> optional tuple, e.g. (?b). That's a bit sucky, though - it's using the
>> implementation constraints to drive the interface.
>
> I was surprised to see that naked "?b" in the protocol string. Try
> Malcolm's suggestion -- we've had to do that in other places as well.

r25242 should do the trick, but I don't have a 1.4.3 server to test it
against. DJ, could you test it for me?

Thanks,
-Hyrum

Received on Thu May 31 22:52:39 2007

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