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

Esteban Lorenzano estebanlm at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 09:47:24 UTC 2015


> On 15 Sep 2015, at 11:44, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess at web.de> wrote:
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> 2015-09-15 11:40 GMT+02:00 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com <mailto:estebanlm at gmail.com>>:
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> Pharo uses them. 
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> Posix permissions are useful for both linux and mac. 
> Windows uses also the posix permissions that came with MinGW… I do not think they are useful but we provide them anyway :)
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> I removed the mingw based permissions (mingws stat/lstat) because they are slow and don't work with longpath names (neither
> with real multibyte paths).

mmm… but something needs to be returned. 
AFAIK mingw posix at least were answering if ro or rw available… but I’m not sure.

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> Esteban
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> ps: I do not know what are you doing there guys, but you broke my builds (I’m taking a look at them now) :P
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> improbable, I didn't push the latest code change :)

:)
some changes in fileplugin were made in the spur branch and that broke the spur builds… but just looking at them now so I don’t know what it is yet. 

Esteban

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>> On 15 Sep 2015, at 09:24, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess at web.de <mailto:nicolaihess at web.de>> wrote:
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>> 2015-09-15 4:11 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com <mailto:btc at openinworld.com>>:
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>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess at web.de <mailto:nicolaihess at web.de>> wrote:
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>> > 2015-09-10 21:31 GMT+02:00 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com <mailto:eliot.miranda at gmail.com>>:
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>> >> Hi Nicolai,
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>> >>     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 <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?
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>> > 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).
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>> What is the purpose of fileattributes? In the interests of further
>> minimising drift, is this useful to Squeak?
>> cheers -ben
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>> 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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