RE: Advice for Interix and to specify users

[Jerker Bäck]

The readlink function in Interix belongs to the NT POSIX API. A replacement
is unlikely to work. According to the disassembly of psxdll.dll they put a
hardcoded buffer limit of 260 chars to readlink. There is a UNICODE variant
of readlink called "wcs_readlink" that I used as a replacement. It worked
and passed the test. 

The system have a file name limit of ~32000 chars, but only under special
rules. A practical file name limit on Windows systems is 260 chars.

So, the conclusion would be:
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No Windows based system will likely pass the test as is.
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Now there is another failure:

...
PASS: lockfiles-1
U first-dir/sdir/ssdir/file1
PASS: lockfiles-2
PASS: lockfiles-3
/tmp/cvs-sanity/cvsrootdir/CVSROOT/config,v  <--  config
new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
cvs commit: Rebuilding administrative file database
PASS: lockfiles-4
cvs [update aborted]: cannot stat /tmp/cvs-sanity/locks: No such file or
directory
PASS: lockfiles-5
PASS: lockfiles-6
PASS: lockfiles-7
drwxr-----  1 Jerker  Domain Admins  0 Apr 23 17:37
/tmp/cvs-sanity/locks/first-dir
PASS: lockfiles-7a
drwxr-----  1 Jerker  Domain Admins  0 Apr 23 17:37
/tmp/cvs-sanity/locks/first-dir/sdir/ssdir
PASS: lockfiles-7b
PASS: lockfiles-8
** expected: 

** got: 
? CVSROOT
? first-dir
FAIL: lockfiles-9

Anyone got an idea why?