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Re[2]: [TSVN] Slow browsing for shares on a remote machine

From: Felix Brack <fb_at_ltec.ch>
Date: 2004-10-22 17:46:34 CEST

SteveKing wrote:

> Felix Brack wrote:

>> I checked out a copy of TSVN's source code; just to see if this would
>> help; of course I can not look at the code (even if it's wirtten as
>> clean as yours) and then after some hours say: 'there is the
>> problem!'.
>> I just noticed that the code often uses 'PathIsDirectory' and never uses
>> 'PathIsUNC' or 'PathIsUNCServer' or 'PathIsUNCServerShare'. According
>> to microsoft, 'PathIsDirectory' returns TRUE if it's argument is a
>> directory, else it returns FALSE. In fact 'PathIsDirectory'
>> returns 0x10 if it's argument is a directory and 0x1 if it's argument
>> is a share. I do not know why the return values differ and I admit,

> Are those return values documented somewhere? The MSDN docs only tell
> about TRUE and FALSE, but not 0x10 and 0x01.

I do not know of any documentation about these return values; looks
like one of the million secrets at microsoft, sorry.

>> that 0x1 as well 0x10 are TRUE (to tell the truth, they are both not
>> FALSE). This is why we use the 'PathIsUNC...' functions to get a clear
>> distinction between 'directory' and 'share'.
>>
>> I think, that omitting the request for the '.svn' directory at the
>> correct place (???) in TSVN's code would solve my problem.

> As of revision 1847, the UNC shares are treated as remote 'drives', even
> if they're not mapped to a drive letter. And if you then disabled the
> icon overlays for network drives, the slowdown will be gone.

Wow, this sounds great! I will check it out an let you know.

> Stefan

Felix

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