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Re: [PATCH] Working copy on Samba share

From: <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:48:19 -0500

"Erik Huelsmann" <ehuels_at_gmail.com> wrote on 09/22/2008 02:13:27 PM:
> 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?)

Unfortunately I don't have a (working) build environment for win32
yet, so the answers are no/no.

However, since the file level externals stuff just hit trunk, I'll
probably need to build win32 clients for testing, so this might be
changing soon.

Kevin R.
Received on 2008-09-22 21:48:35 CEST

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