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normalizePath bug (PR#13199)

5 messages · joe at novelcap.com, Duncan Murdoch, Joseph Haykov

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joe at novelcap.com
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Full_Name: Joseph Haykov
Version: 2.8.0
OS: Windows
Submission from: (NULL) (216.189.177.202)


normalizePath("C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOSEPH~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\RtmpolZ4Vy\\file72ae2cd6.txt")

returns: "\0354xl|\a\001?$v\001?y8"

instead of returning:

"C:\\Documents and Settings\\Joseph Haykov\\Local
Settings\\Temp\\RtmpolZ4Vy\\file72ae2cd6.txt"

By the way, this works correctly in version 2.6.2
Duncan Murdoch
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On 10/23/2008 10:45 AM, joe at novelcap.com wrote:
I see the problem, and will look into it.  It first started failing in 
2.7.0; it's not a new bug.

But I'm not sure it's a bug, since that directory doesn't exist on my 
system, and the function is documented to give undefined results in that 
case.  Does that file exist on your system?

Duncan Murdoch
Joseph Haykov
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Actually, it's a new file that I plan on writing to, so while the  
directory C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOSEPH~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\RtmpolZ4Vy exists, the  
file file72ae2cd6.txt does not. However, this was working fine in version  
2.6.2. If you're saying that the reason why this doesn't work is because  
the file does not exist, I can easily work around the issue.

Best regards,


Joe Haykov


On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:49:42 -0400, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>  
wrote:
Duncan Murdoch
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On 10/23/2008 1:59 PM, Joseph Haykov wrote:
That's a likely cause.  2.7.0 changed the method of normalizing the 
path, and it now relies on Windows API calls to do it.  However, up to 
2.8.0 it wasn't checking for an error return from those.  I've fixed 
that now, so your string now gives me

 > 
normalizePath("C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOSEPH~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\RtmpolZ4Vy\\file72ae2cd6.txt")
Error in normalizePath(path) : Unable to normalize element 1

The Windows docs don't list all possible reasons for an error return, so 
I'm not sure that's what you saw, but it does seem likely.  Please do 
let me know if creating the file is not sufficient to get it to work for 
you.

Duncan Murdoch
Joseph Haykov
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No, it's working fine if the file is there, and as I mentioned before, I  
can just normalize the path, and then append the file name at the end  
using the file.path function.

Thanks for your help.


On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:24:42 -0400, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>  
wrote: