Re: Checking pgwin32_is_junction() errors

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Жарков Роман <r(dot)zharkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Checking pgwin32_is_junction() errors
Date: 2022-08-08 22:44:55
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJtJaKCuuEskzRkcGMjRYnf1aLQmEkzf=o-ZM=7fqNkow@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 8:30 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 8:23 PM <r(dot)zharkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
> > "C:/HOME" is the junction point to the second volume on my hard drive -
> > "\??\Volume{GUID}\" which name pgreadlink() erroneously strips here:
> > https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/7e29a79a46d30dc236d097825ab849158929d977/src/port/dirmod.c#L357.

> ... Would it
> be better to say: if it doesn't begin with "\??\X:", where X could be
> any letter, then don't modify it?

Concretely, I wonder if this is a good fix at least in the short term.
Does this work for you, and do the logic and explanation make sense?

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0001-Fix-readlink-for-more-complex-Windows-paths.patch text/x-patch 2.0 KB

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