On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 3:35 PM Nick Kew <n...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 24 Nov 2020, at 18:51, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > > > > Yes, I'm on it. 1.6.x and prior somewhat works. 1.7.0 does not, asking > > for apr_stat of a root drive. Seeing the request yesterday for a new > release, > > I'd like the chance to fix that quirk of the Win32 API and populate the > stat > > struct with something resembling correct info about the root mounts. > > Is the issue here that we have something that simply won't map onto > Windows expectations, so there is no solution that will work for Johan > without re-introducting PR#47630? >
Close, and no, we won't reintroduce the old defect. It's a combination of treating [C:\]"The device" specially because there is no concept on windows of getting the C:\ filesystem, even though it is an NTFS (root) directory object, with contents and context. > If so, perhaps what we need is an additional argument that'll switch > between the two behaviours (ignored on non-windows), and to > deprecate the existing problematic API. > > I'm reluctant to jump in here myself 'cos it's been many years since I > had access to a Windows machine, let alone a dev environment. > But it's simple enough, I guess I could hack up a "looks OK" patch > to do that in the absence of any alternative proposal? > What we don't want to do is to put two different behaviors on the user. The fix I have on the bench is to react *when we see the anticipated error* and know that is should react as looking at the device not the directory, and "make stuff up" about the remaining fields to be filled in a consistent manner. What has my attention right now is authoring the tests to prove up success or failure in this attempt. > BTW, please don't Cc: me replies to this thread. I get it on the APR > dev list, and I don't need a second copy! > :) Anyone is welcome to propose switching to httpd-dev like semantics for reply-to handling. What I'm curious is whether the svn-dev side of contributors have a strong feeling one way or the other, because I know httpd-dev related contributors all do.
