Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 09:01, jpieper@tigris.org wrote:
> > Issue #1779: Improve svn_path_canonicalize to make more
> > transformations aimed at removing path specification redundancies.
>
> I am concerned about the case where one runs something like "svn st
> foo/../bar", where foo is a symlink with multiple path elements.
> (Symlinks within working dirs around allowed, but I see no reason why
> symlinks should be disallowed in the portion of a path leading up to the
> working copy.)
>
> You did not break this case; it was already broken due to the call to
> apr_filepath_merge() in libsvn_subr/opt.c:svn_opt_args_to_target_array.
> But it seems like the logic of both apr_filepath_merge() and the new
> logic of svn_path_canonicalize() are fundamentally flawed, unless they
> are only applied within a playground where directory symlinks are
> disallowed.
Yes, I considered that case; this also stopped generating an error
when you try "invalid_path/../real_path." Apache does this when
resolving URLs to filesystem paths, so at least one other application
handles paths the same way. Of course that doesn't mean it is a valid
method, but collapsing the ".." makes the copy code more robust to
differing path specifications in the common cases.
> > (svn_path_canonicalize): Replaced old implementation with new that
> > uses nearly identical logic to large portions of
> > apr_filepath_merge. It condenses redundant "/./", "/../", and
> > "//" portions of the path, as well as removing any trailing
> > separator characters.
>
> When you say in a log message that a function is "nearly identical" to a
> preexisting function, you might say how it's different. As it stands,
> I'm not sure why you didn't use apr_filepath_merge to implement
> svn_path_canonicalize.
Yes, good point. I will document the reasons why in the log message.
-Josh
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Received on Sun Jul 4 17:22:04 2004