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Re: problems with mimetype of and empty utf8 files in svn 1.7

From: 'Daniel Shahaf' <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:34:15 +0200

Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 13:27:28 +0200:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 01:20:49PM +0200, Bert Huijben wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
> > > Sent: vrijdag 21 oktober 2011 13:13
> > > To: Tomáš Bihary
> > > Cc: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: problems with mimetype of and empty utf8 files in svn 1.7
> > >
> > > What do you expect to happen?
> > >
> > > As to special-casing svn_io_is_binary_data() to handle 0xEFBBBF
> > > correctly... we could do that, I suppose.
> >
> > +1
> > AnkhSVN currently has its own code to remove the binary marking from these specific files.
> >
> > Some 3th party Visual Studio features like to add empty files and then later fill them with the real data.
> >
> >
> >
> > This leaves the case where you have just a few characters in a file where you have a BOM at the start, but for our users that case is far less common than this empty file case.
> >
> >
> > Bert
>
> Fine, here is my patch again, with a log message.
> Can someone run this through the windows test suite, please? Thanks.

Have you considered patchign svn_io_is_binary_data()?

(which, it appears, will be functionally equivalent to your current
patch)

> I don't expect any test failures from this to arise on *nix.
> Manual testing on BSD with files that contain just the UTF-8 BOM
> suggests that the patch works fine.
>
> [[[
> Special-case empty UTF-8 files which have a UTF-8 BOM. Prevents such
> files from being considered binary by default.
>
> * subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c
> (svn_io_detect_mimetype2): If the block read from disk contains only
> a UTF-8 BOM, don't return a binary mimetype but indicate to the caller
> that it should be treated as text.
>
> Reported by: Tomáš Bihary
> ]]]
>
> Index: subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c
> ===================================================================
> --- subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c (revision 1186983)
> +++ subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c (working copy)
> @@ -2968,6 +2968,13 @@ svn_io_detect_mimetype2(const char **mimetype,
> /* Now close the file. No use keeping it open any more. */
> SVN_ERR(svn_io_file_close(fh, pool));
>
> + if (amt_read == 3 && block[0] == 0xEF && block[1] == 0xBB && block[2] == 0xBF)
> + {
> + /* This is an empty UTF-8 file which only contains the UTF-8 BOM.
> + * Treat it as plain text. */
> + return SVN_NO_ERROR;
> + }
> +
> if (svn_io_is_binary_data(block, amt_read))
> *mimetype = generic_binary;
>
Received on 2011-10-21 13:35:04 CEST

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