On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, William Ferguson wrote:
> --- Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote:
>
> > Logically, if you try to open an existing file as
> > if it were a directory, you are ignoring critical
> > filesystem information --
> > namely, the type of the node. This is an error on
> > the part of application using the filesystem.
> > Yes, the path doesn't exist, but
> > errors trump this fact. The application is 100%
> > capable of finding out the type of the existing node
> > before trying to incorrectly open
> > it as a directory. Just run svn_ra_get_dir() on
> > its parent.
>
> Sure, but this implies that while using the svn_ra
> library, every call to svn_ra_stat must be preceded by
> one call to svn_ra_dir for each segment of the path
> that is to be supplied to svn_ra_stat. So instead of
> making a single call to svn_ra_stat to determine
> whether a node is legit, we currently need to make n
> class to svn_ra_dir + 1 to svn_ra_stat or risk having
> svn_ra_stat fail because some part of the path
> supplied by the client may refer to a file when they
> believed it to be a folder.
>
An alternative that springs to my mind is to just catch this error in your
application and handle it.
Regards,
//Peter
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Received on Tue Sep 13 09:12:31 2005