On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 02:18:22PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> I noticed some oddities/problems with the stream mark/seek/reset
> functionality in svn_subst_stream_translated().
> 
> 1.
> svn_subst_stream_translated() doesn't handle mark/seek properly.
> translated_stream_mark() saves and translated_stream_seek() restores
> only the source stream's position, and not the internal state of
> translation which it resets to "not in a translation".  This will work
> properly only if the marked position is not inside a keyword or EOL.  It
> needs to store (into the mark structure) the current state of
> translation as well.
> 
> (An alternative could be to attach conditions to the use of mark/seek:
> "this only works if you do XXX" - but I think that would be a Bad Thing.
> The concept of streams works well precisely because we can layer
> arbitrary streams on top of each other and expect them to work without
> having to worry about such conditions.)
> 
> 2.
> translated_stream_seek() first flushes the output buffer, but
> translated_stream_reset() doesn't.  I think that's a bug in _reset.

I think I added this support and have probably made these mistakes.
Can you file an issue to track these problems?

Thanks,
Stefan

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