[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] issue with large file path on windows

[Nicolai Hess]

2015-09-15 4:11 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com>:

>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess at web.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 2015-09-10 21:31 GMT+02:00 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Nicolai,
> >>
> >>     I'm a bit concerned that this is creating drift with the "official"
> Cog source base at http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog.  Long
> filename support for win32 was recently added by Marcel Taumel in May of
> this year.  Are you tracking that?  How can we keep the sources harmonized?
> >
> >
> > Ok, I removed all of my code again and merged with sqWin32Directory.c
> and sqWin32FilePrims.c from the official cog source.
> > I left only pharos additions for the fileattributes (posixpermissions)
> this should make it easier to merge which the
> > squeak vm main branch (wrapped with pharo vm ifdefs).
>
> What is the purpose of fileattributes? In the interests of further
> minimising drift, is this useful to Squeak?
> cheers -ben
>

I don't know, I don't think we use it at all. And for the different
platforms, the permission attributes
doesn't really *are the same*. For example, the read/write permissions we
are showing for
win32 platform, don't have much to do with win32 access restrictions -
Idon't know about macos.
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