On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Joseph Prostko <joe.pros...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Thanks again for all of the help, Stephan and Andy, as now I can use
> Fossil to its full potential in Haiku. :)
>
A minor amendment...
a) the fix is actually not Haiku-specific, it turns out.
b) the credit goes to Andy B. for the fix and Joe for his support in
finding it.
c) here's Andy B's report of the root of the problem:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org>
wrote:
> Here's what I've found so far. Assume that the repository is
> /tmp/new.fossil and I run fossil ui from an open directory for that
> fossil.
>
> enter_chroot_jail is called, it closes the open db, and then it
> successfully does a chroot into /tmp, and returns "/new.fossil" as the
> new g.zRepositoryName (relative to the chroot). This is fine. Then we
> get into process_one_web_page and this is where the mischief happens:
>
> zRepo = zToFree = mprintf("%s%.*s.fossil",g.zRepositoryName,i,zPathInfo);
>
>
> http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact/2b4c706ab0a6a03694a6017733d53211d95d8c67?ln=1319,1368
>
> Basically, zPathInfo is / (because that's what fossil ui directs
> the browser to e.g. http://localhost:8080/), and g.zRepositoryName is
> "/new.fossil" so it combines them into zRepo:
>
> zRepo = zToFree = "/new.fossil/.fossil"
>
> Then the rest is history. It tries to open that and read the size, but
> fails because that doesn't exist. It then tries to open "/new.fossil/"
> as a directory and fails.
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