On Dec 5, 2008, at 8:35 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
Jos Boumans via RT wrote:
<URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41329 >
Unfortuantely while that patch fixes the Archive::Tar tests, it
seems to have broken the CPANPLUS tests, which I just found out last
night.
The code in question is dealing with directory components that have
been split out of a Unix-format path during the process of restoring a
tar archive. They will shortly be recombined into a native path so
that directory can be created on disk. Calling VMS::Filespec::vmspath
on each of the components is a very big hammer and it doesn't surprise
me it causes problems elsewhere.
Craig's alternative patch will work for VMS perl in ODS-2 mode only,
which is the mode that Perl on VMS has traditionally been.
My patch prevented the special '..' directory from being converted to
'__' at the point where we otherwise convert dots to underscores in
directory names on VMS. That's all it did, and I don't see anything
that would prevent that from working on any volume format. The
salient chunk of the patch at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39933
is just:
- map tr/\./_/, @dirs if ON_VMS;
+ map $_ ne '..' && tr/\./_/, @dirs if ON_VMS;
I do not yet have a solution that will work for ODS-2 and ODS-5
properly.
I find this nomenclature confusing. As you well know, the level
number of the On-Disk Structure is an indication of volume format.
There is no such thing as an ODS-2 or ODS-5 "mode." It is true that
some Unix emulation features of the C run-time and the filesystem are
only supported on ODS-5 volumes. If what you are talking about here
is preserving dots in directory names rather than treating them as
directory delimiters, I think it would be clearer to say so in so many
words.
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