Just stumbled across issue #2487, which tracks some of this same discussion:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2487
Is the environment-variable-based workaround included in that issue worth
"productizing"?
C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> CollabNet has a customer who's having trouble with locking files with
> Chinese names. They are hosting with Apache, and when they attempt to lock
> such a file, the server process hangs and the client sits doing nothing
> until a timeout kicks in and breaks the connection. (I can easily reproduce
> the situation myself, too.)
>
> The problem occurs as Subversion attempts to convert all the UTF-8 pre-lock
> hook parameters (which include the to-be-locked path) into the locale's
> character set before using them to invoke the hook script itself. The
> problem is that even though the system locale is a UTF-8-ish one, Apache has
> set the locale to the baseline "C" locale. UTF-8 Chinese characters can't
> be represented in mere ASCII, so the conversion fails. Subversion (on the
> server) creates an error when svn_io_start_cmd() is trying to convert those
> hook parameters, and stores the error in an 'err' local variable in
> run_hook_cmd():
>
> err = svn_io_start_cmd(&cmd_proc, ".", cmd, args, FALSE,
> stdin_handle, result ? write_outhandle : null_handle,
> write_errhandle, pool);
>
> But this codepath still allows us to fall into this future block of code,
> where we're trying to read output from the hook (which, by the way, was
> never actually launched):
>
> if (result)
> {
> svn_stringbuf_t *native_stdout;
> SVN_ERR(svn_stringbuf_from_aprfile(&native_stdout, read_outhandle,
> pool));
>
> I believe this is the cause of the Apache process hang. And I suspect that
> we can fix this.
>
> But what about original problem with encodings? If I recall correctly,
> Apache is intentionally locale-ignorant. Like, not just "I don't know about
> the system locale", but "I'd like to ignore the system locale. On purpose.
> For reals." Would an appropriate workaround for this problem be to
> introduce a mod_dav_svn configuration directive which allows admins to
> dictate the locale of their hook environment?
>
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
Received on 2010-01-04 14:50:05 CET