Fonts reorganization and additions
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Sep 13 16:10:00 GMT 2015
On 9/11/2015 3:59 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> The first thing that should be checked is if the code in setup which
> allows it to unpack files with "illegal" characters in Windows also
> makes sure to create parent directories. Based on these reports my
> *guess* is it doesn't but I haven't looked yet.
I'm not very familiar with the setup code, but I think I may have found the
problem. The function mkdir_p() in mkdir.cc contains the following, starting at
line 99:
for (c = path; *c; c++)
{
if (*c == ':')
slash = 0;
if (*c == '/' || *c == '\\')
slash = c;
}
if (!slash)
return 0;
If I understand this correctly, the function will return success without having
created the leading directory if the path name contains a colon and doesn't
contain a slash after the last colon. I guess the assumption is that there is
no "leading directory" to be created in this case. [This part of the code was
written in 2000, when a colon could not be part of a file name.]
I hope someone who understands the setup code better than I do can take a look
at this. I'm not confident that I understand all the uses of mkdir_p() or all
possible reasons why its in_path argument might contain a colon.
Ken
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