Re: FAT32 svn errors

Branko Čibej wrote:

>Henrik Holmboe wrote:
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>
>
>>Hi devs,
>>
>>I'm experiencing problem checking out to FAT32 filesystems, while
>>doing the same operation to NTFS is working without problems. This is
>>on Windows XP SP1.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Sigh, yes... I haven't tested on FAT in a looong time, and the last time
>I did, I had problems, too. I think we're assuming a rename over an
>existing target is allowed. It's not, on FAT.
>
Duh, stupid me. That's not allowed on *any* Windows filesystem by default.

>I don't know whether this is something that should be fixed in APR or in
>svn_io_file_rename.
>
>

Hmm. Looking at the code, APR is working correctly. So it seems like
we're trying to rename over a file that we still have a handle to. I
dunno why that would work in NTFS but not on FAT.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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