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FW: Generating a dump file using a powershell script

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:58:40 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Worboys [mailto:geoff_at_telesiscomputing.com.au]
> Sent: dinsdag 22 juni 2010 16:37
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Generating a dump file using a powershell script
>

<snip>

> Q2: When writing the code to try and identify text versus
> binary files I decided to look at what subversion did ... but
> now I am confused. In libsvn_subr\io.c function
> svn_io_detect_mimetype2 a comment says:
> going to examine the first block of data, and make sure that 85%
> of the bytes are such that their value is in the ranges 0x07-0x0D
> or 0x20-0x7F, and that 100% of those bytes is not 0x00.
> but my reading of this code
> if (((binary_count * 1000) / amt_read) > 850)
> {
> *mimetype = generic_binary;
> return SVN_NO_ERROR;
> }
> suggests that it is actually setting the type to binary only
> if it finds more than 85% are binary bytes (in earlier code a
> file binary if forced if any null byte is found).
>
> Can anyone explain this? A bug or am I missing something?

Looking at the code, this seems looks like a bug to me. But it's not a bug
that I like to fix without further review, because the current code might
work better then the intended behavior for users of different character
sets.

So it might be safer to just fix the documentation.

        Bert
Received on 2010-06-22 16:59:27 CEST

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