Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/09/23/05:22:33
On Sep 22 21:02, Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>
> > > > > Cygwin 1.7 is
> > > > > detecting this situation (which is a step up from 1.5 which did the
> rename
> > > > > anyways), but sets errno to EBUSY instead of EINVAL.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for catching. Feel free to fix the rename function accordingly.
> > >
> > > OK, I'll look into it (I don't know how large the patch will be, yet).
> >
> > And link("a","f/.") should not create "f" as a regular file, either. I'm
> still
> > looking at where to patch things.
>
> I've got a patch in testing for both of these issues. But while looking at
> path.cc, I've noticed a couple of things:
>
> The code doesn't do a very good job of remembering lengths it has already
> seen. For example, with relative paths, the code in normalize_posix_path does
> cwd.get, then strchr; it seems like since cwd.get already knows how many bytes
> it copied, that a simple API modification would pass that information back to
> the caller so that the caller doesn't have to use strchr to find the end of the
> string. Anything we can do to avoid rescanning strings of known length will
> provide speedups in path handling.
This one might be worth a shot, if it's an easy patch.
> I'm also wondering whether it is time to finally emulate Linux by requiring
> that when doing pathname resolution of 'a/..', that 'a' actually exist (either
> as a directory or a symlink to directory), instead of silently ignoring that
> part of the string. Should I go ahead and spend time working up a patch for
> this?
This is something which I have on my TODO list for a long time, but I
never saw a simple way to implement this without losing a lot of the
already lousy performance of the path conversion. Additionally the path
conversion code is already quite complicated and I fear the unwanted
side effects such a change could have. Therefore, I tend to think of
this as a welcome post-1.7.1 change.
Corinna
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