Julian Foad wrote:
> Since several of you are APR developers, I wonder if one of you would
> be keen to take up the following issues with apr_file_copy(). We've
> now got several reasons to re-work it:
>
> Correctness:
>
> We (Subversion) expect it to do a byte-for-byte copy. To achieve this
> on some less-common platforms, we have:
>
> * Paul Burba's work-around for OS400 going into Subversion.
>
> * Max Bowsher's patch for CygWin that he makes to APR when building it.
>
> If the APR developers can agree that that is the intended behaviour,
> both of those patches would be eliminated by documenting that
> apr_file_copy performs a byte-for-byte copy, and making it open the
> source and destination in "binary" mode to achieve this. The
> behaviour would be unchanged on Unix-like platforms.
>
>
> Speed:
>
> * Implementation for MS Windows should use the OS's native "file copy"
> API for much faster performance (and probably better performance in
> terms of preserving permissions, etc.).
>
> * Ditto on any other platforms that provide such an API.
>
> * Other implementations should use a buffer bigger than BUFSIZ.
I agree with all of the above, but note that in order for these changes
to be useful for Subversion, we'll have to implement them on APR's trunk
and backport to the 1.2.x and 0.9.x branches. Nowever, I'm not sure we
can actually rely on the changes being in APR, unless we unilaterally
stop supporting older versions of APR after these changes go into an APR
release.
-- Brane
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Received on Fri Mar 10 15:46:11 2006