From: "Mats Nilsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 12:20 PM
> During my testing the subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org) on the > Win32 platform, I ran into some problems with the apr_dir_open/apr_dir_read > functions as implemented on Win32. ...> > 1. Sometimes the apr translates the directory name into something > that some Win32 functions don't like. > > Specifically if the directory given to apr_dir_open is given like > "d:/some/dir", > this gets translated inside apr into "\\?\d:\some\dir", a filename format > that GetNamedSecurityInfoW will not accept. > > On the other hand, if the directory name is given like "d:\some\dir", the > translation will not take place, and the above mentioned function works. The other hand was actually a bug. That is fixed, as well. d:\some\dir will now be parsed as \\?\d:\some\dir so it can be of (effectively) unlimited length. Thanks for that catch too! Bill
