On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:38:13 -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >--On Saturday, July 31, 2004 11:55 AM +1000 Brian Havard ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While porting Subversion to OS/2 I came across a failure where it tries to >> open a file using only APR_READ | APR_CREATE. This results in an error on >> OS/2, it doesn't seem to like the idea of creating a new file with >> read-only access. >> >> Is this supposed to work or is it just lucky that happens to work on other >> platforms? IE should I fix APR or Subversion? > >I'd fix APR as I think it's reasonable to use that construct to 'touch' an >empty file - which is what SVN does, IIRC. Seems like OS/2 should just >implicitly add write behind the scenes in this corner case... -- justin
Ok, so creating a file isn't consider writing to it, just writing a directory entry? I guess I can make the OS/2 implementation work that way if that's considered the standard. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | Brian Havard | "He is not the messiah! | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | He's a very naughty boy!" - Life of Brian | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
