Previously, when we verified the parts of a path in the auditor, we would
validate the deepest directory first, then it's parent, and so on up to the
root. If there happened to be a symlink in the chain, that meant our first check
would likely traverse that symlink. In some cases that symlink might point to
a network filesystem that is expensive, and therefore this simple check could be
very slow.
The fix is to check the path parts starting at the root and working our way
down.
This has a minor performance difference in that we used to be able to short
circuit from the audit if we reached a directory that had already been checked.
Now we can't, but the cost is N dictionary look ups, where N is the number of
parts in the path, which should be fairly minor.
The home of 'Abort' is 'error' not 'util' however, a lot of code seems to be
confused about that and gives all the credit to 'util' instead of the
hardworking 'error'. In a spirit of equity, we break the cycle of injustice and
give back to 'error' the respect it deserves. And screw that 'util' poser.
For great justice.
Python 2.6 introduced the "except type as instance" syntax, replacing
the "except type, instance" syntax that came before. Python 3 dropped
support for the latter syntax. Since we no longer support Python 2.4 or
2.5, we have no need to continue supporting the "except type, instance".
This patch mass rewrites the exception syntax to be Python 2.6+ and
Python 3 compatible.
This patch was produced by running `2to3 -f except -w -n .`.
We retain the forwards because it helps code be more ignorant of
implementation details, but use forwards instead of our own method
definitions since we don't need any truly custom behavior for now.
I've done this as its own step so that it's easy to see that the
posixpath implementations pass the doctests in this package. In a
future patch I'll just make these pure forwards of the methods so that
things using pathutil can be oblivious to the posix nature of these
functions.
This adds dirname and join functions to pathutil which are explicitly for
handling '/' delimited paths. The implementations are basically copy paste from
python's posix os.path.dirname and os.path.join functions.
Given that this path is going to abort, it seems OK to spend the time to do an
alternate lookup to better inform the user. The path returned by util.pathto()
ends with '/' at least in some cases, so os.path.relpath() is used instead,
which requires python 2.6.
Before this patch, "reporelpath()" uses "rstrip(os.sep)" to trim
"os.sep" at the end of "parent.root" path.
But it doesn't work correctly with some problematic encodings on
Windows, because some multi-byte characters in such encodings contain
'\\' (0x5c) as the tail byte of them.
In such cases, "reporelpath()" leaves unexpected '\\' at the beginning
of the path returned to callers.
"lcalrepository.root" seems not to have tail "os.sep", because it is
always normalized by "os.path.realpath()" in "vfs.__init__()", but in
fact it has tail "os.sep", if it is a root (of the drive): path
normalization trims tail "os.sep" off "/foo/bar/", but doesn't trim
one off "/".
So, just avoiding "rstrip(os.sep)" in "reporelpath()" causes
regression around issue3033 fixed by e3dfde137fa5.
This patch introduces "pathutil.normasprefix" to normalize specified
path in the specific way for problematic encodings without regression
around issue3033.
