Re: Cleaning up XFails: locks-test.exe 9 and 10

Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com> writes:

> Do "DAV clients sometimes LOCK non-existent paths, as a way of
> reserving names"? I'm not sure exactly what that means, does anyone
> have an inkling?

In subversion/mod_dav_svn/lock.c:append_locks the code does a PUT of a
0-byte file when an attempt is made to lock a non-existant file. You
need SVNAutoversioning enabled and you need to be using a non-Subversion
client. It is possible to trigger this using cadaver:

$ svnadmin create repo
$ ln -sf /bin/true repo/hooks/pre-lock
$ cadaver http://localhost:8888/obj/repo
dav:/obj/repo/> lock f
Locking `f': succeeded.
dav:/obj/repo/> quit
$ svnlook tree repo
/
 f

-- 
Philip