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Re: [Patch] apr_file_path_merge returns incorrect truepath on certain 'short paths' on Windows

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 05:41:07 +0200

On 17.06.2015 05:28, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 15.06.2015 16:52, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
>> Great report, thanks Bert. I'll review.
>
> I verified the patch with trunk on Windows 10/VS2015; looks good.

I went ahead and committed to trunk in r1685929. I'll see about porting
this to 1.5.x.

-- Brane

>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl
>> <mailto:bert_at_qqmail.nl>> wrote:
>>
>> Trying yet another e-mail address... Nice that this just bounces
>> instead of being moderated :(
>>
>> Bert
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Bert Huijben [mailto:rhuijben_at_collab.net
>> <mailto:rhuijben_at_collab.net>]
>> > Sent: maandag 15 juni 2015 14:04
>> > To: dev_at_apr.apache.org <mailto:dev_at_apr.apache.org>
>> > Cc: Stephen White; dev_at_subversion.apache.org
>> <mailto:dev_at_subversion.apache.org>
>> > Subject: [Patch] apr_file_path_merge returns incorrect truepath
>> on certain
>> > 'short paths' on Windows
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > In the last few months we got two reports from Subversion users
>> that
>> > passing certain short paths to 'svn' failed for them.
>> >
>> > E.g.
>> > [[
>> > > mkdir ALongName.impl
>> > > dir /x
>> > ...
>> > 27/03/2015 12:50 <DIR> ALONGN~1.IMP ALongName.impl
>> > ]]
>> > And then passing this 'ALONGN~1.IMP' path works just fine.
>> >
>> > While
>> > [[
>> > > mkdir api.impl
>> > > dir /x
>> > ...
>> > 27/03/2015 12:52 <DIR> API~1.IMP api.impl
>> > ...
>> > ]]
>> > And then passing the 'API~1.IMP' path doesn't (uses api.implP)
>> > (Samples copied from a mail from Stephen White to
>> dev_at_subversion.a.o)
>> >
>> > The problem here is that the short path is actually longer than
>> the long
>> > path. which triggers a bug in APR's truename code that we use.
>> In this
>> > specific case the length of the updated path is not properly
>> updated, to
>> > reflect the shorter total path length.
>> >
>> >
>> > When trying to write a testcase for this issue I found that Windows
>> > disables short path generation on user created NTFS filesystems
>> these
>> > days. Only on system partition the default setup enables short path
>> > creation. (An admin can enable short paths via something like
>> 'fsutil
>> > 8dot3name set R: 1', or a flag can be passed to format.exe)
>> >
>> > The attached patch fixes the problem, which appears to be
>> specific for the
>> > last path component (saveslash = FALSE).
>> >
>> >
>> > I would like to see this problem fixed in apr 1.5.
>> >
>> > The attached patch applies directly to 1.5.x and trunk.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Bert
>>
>>
>
Received on 2015-06-17 05:41:13 CEST

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