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Re: [PATCH] Working copy on Samba share

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:13:27 +0200

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
>
> alan.wood_at_clear.net.nz wrote on 09/22/2008 06:42:43 AM:
>> Hi All,
>> I have been working on trying to make subversion working copies
>> behave on Samba shares.
>> This patch seems to solve two issues that I have seen.
>> The problems happen after a commit when the working copy is being
>> updated.
>> The first is that a rename would sometimes fail from .svn/tmp/blah
>> to .svn/blah2 or .svn/dir-props to .svn/dir-props-base
>> The second fault would be cannot access dir/.svn/lock. Both would
>> report 'permission denied'.
>> I have managed to trace this to places in the code where
>> GetFileAttributes and SetFileAttributes are called.
>> Both of these functions suffer from the same fate as described at
>> the top of io.c and which the macro WIN32_RETRY_LOOP() was written
>> to alleviate.
>> The FileAttribue calls are in the apr_ routines apr_stat() and
>> apr_file_attrs_set().
>> This patch wraps these two apr_ routines in the WIN32_RETRY_LOOP()
>> macro.
>> I have patched all uses of these two routines even though I have
>> only managed to trace issues occurring in
>> svn_io_set_file_read_write() called from svn_io_file_rename() and
>> io_check_path().
>> Tests so far confirm that the issues that I have been able to
>> reproduce have disappeared.
>
> Hope this makes it into 1.5.3. Have had a lot of complaints from
> people lately...

In which case this question becomes important: did you test it? (Or:
can you vouch for it?)

Bye,

Erik.

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