Re: [Boost-build] build engine crashes when GLOBing paths with forward slashes on windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] build engine crashes when GLOBing paths with forward slashes on windows
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-22 10:09:16

AMDG

On 02/16/2012 06:02 AM, Marc Dürner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I get a crash on windows when a path with forward slashes such as
> /usr/include is passed to GLOB. I believe is has to do with the
> implementation of ShortPathToLongPath in pathunix.c. There has been
> special handling of short paths added recently for paths that only
> contain the drive letter such as c:\. I can add special handling for
> paths with forward slashes in a similar manner at the begin on
> ShortPathToLongPath:
> 
>     if ( (short_path[0] == '\\') && (short_path[1] == '\0') )
>     {
>         string_push_back( out, '\\' );
>         return;
>     }
> 
> This fixes it, but seems only to hide a deeper problem.
> ShortPathToLongPath() and path_write_key() call each other recursively
> and we run into a situation in path_write_key() where a element was
> added to the hashmap, but not completely initialized, A following
> recursive call finds the element in the hashmap and tries to use the
> elements uninitialized value.
> 

I thought I handled this by converting everything
to '\'.  Can you file a ticket as svn.boost.org
including the cases that you've found that fail?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe