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Re: [PATCH] Improve free drive letter detection for windows tests

From: Stefan <luke1410_at_posteo.de>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 14:23:48 +0200

On 7/31/2016 14:17, Stefan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the current test code causes two test failures on my machine (Windows,
> python 64-bit, drives G-J HDDs, drive K dvd drive - tested with SVN
> 1.9.4 and trunk).
> The issue seems to be that the fallback detection code incorrectly
> concludes that drive K is a free drive letter, if there's no disc in the
> drive. This then results in two test failures for me:
>
> - checkout #14
> - update #31
>
> Full details available here [1].
>
> The attached patch resolves the issue by replacing the current code
> detecting free drive letters by using the ctypes library instead of the
> win32api library.
>
> As far as I understand things, this is backwards compatible with Python
>> = 2.5 [2]. Since SVN 1.9/trunk require Python >= 2.7, I don't see any
> compatibility concern for this change.
>
> [[[
> Resolve test failures on Windows when running with Python 64-bit.
>
> * subversion/tests/cmdline/checkout_tests.py
> (checkout_wc_from_drive): replace the win32api-dependent drive letter
> detection code with the an approach using
> the more
> portable ctypes library and direct call to the
> kernel32's GetLogicalDrives() function
> * subversion/tests/cmdline/update_tests.py
> (update_wc_on_windows_drive): the same
> ]]]
>
> [1] http://www.luke1410.de:8090/browse/MAXSVN-65
> [2] http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
>
> Regards,
> Stefan

Just verified the same issue exist in 1.8.16 and 1.7.22 as well. For 1.8
the patch should also work, since 1.8 requires Python 2.5.

Regards,
Stefan

Received on 2016-07-31 14:24:01 CEST

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