Issue 787: Windows: add => do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory) - Darcs bug tracker

Title	Windows: add => do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory)
Priority	bug	Status	need-info
Superseder		Nosy List	beschmi, dagit, darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, eivuokko, jaredj, kowey, rgm, shmul, shmulbox, simon, thorkilnaur, tommy, wglozer
Assigned To		Topics	Windows

Created on 2008-04-09.08:02:30 by shmulbox, last changed 2008-10-16.12:58:29 by kowey.

Files
File name	Uploaded	Type	Edit	Remove
darcs_test.zip	shmul, 2008-05-14.14:42:54	application/x-zip-compressed
unnamed	shmulbox, 2008-04-09.08:02:27	text/html

msg4215 (view)	Author: shmulbox	Date: 2008-04-09.08:02:28
Messages			(mbox)
When trying to add a file with non-ascii file name the following error may be reported "do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory)" This happens on both the win32 darcs versions (1.0.9 - with or without cygwin). It was consistent with a file whose name consisted of the single character with code 247. It didn't happen with all the non-ascii file names (for exmaple I tried with a Hebrew file name and it worked ok), nor did it happen when the character code was 248. Cheers, Shmul
msg4344 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-04-25.17:31:02
Any chance you could try the same on Linux or MacOS? Thanks for the bug report!
msg4648 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-05-14.08:32:44
Shmul: could you kind submit some kind of test case that we can use? The best would be a patch adding a test to our bugs/ directory, but whatever is convenient for you is fine. Your description sounds encouragingly reproducible. Thanks!
msg4668 (view)	Author: shmul	Date: 2008-05-14.12:29:45
I've uploaded an empty file whose name is the character 247. Hopefully the file name won't be changed by the bug-tracking or web-server.
msg4669 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-05-14.12:34:45
Hmm... looks like our bugtracker ate the filename. Maybe create a zip file? I'll state for the record that I have no idea about encoding issues and filesystems, so if anybody here knows what they're talking about, they should speak up.
msg4694 (view)	Author: shmul	Date: 2008-05-14.14:42:54
The attached archive contains a single empty file whose name is character 247. Now we should hope that the unzip process won't rename it :) 7zip on windows does the trick.
msg4695 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-05-14.15:01:39
Thanks. That filename looks like a y with two dots on it. Is that correct? I wasn't able to reproduce the bug on Linux, btw, but I'll submit a test case.
msg4696 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-05-14.15:09:41
Hmm... looking closer at this, I'm guessing you meant character 247 under the Windows-1255 encoding, which is ק but I'm not entirely sure, nor do I have a good idea how to turn this into a proper test case...
msg6331 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2008-10-16.12:58:26
Grant Husbands comments: > On windows, you can hold alt and type (on the numeric keypad) 0247 > to get that character, most likely. For me, it gives a division symbol. > If the planets are in alignment, you can see it here: ÷

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History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-09 08:02:30	shmulbox	create
2008-04-20 19:05:31	zooko	link	issue788 superseder
2008-04-25 17:31:06	kowey	set	status: unread -> chatting priority: bug title: Darcs on windows error - "do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory)" -> add => do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory) [Windows] nosy: + wglozer, eivuokko, rgm, jaredj messages: + msg4344 topic: + Windows
2008-05-14 08:32:47	kowey	set	status: chatting -> need-info nosy: + shmulbox, dagit messages: + msg4648 assignedto: shmulbox
2008-05-14 12:29:47	shmul	set	nosy: + shmul, - shmulbox messages: + msg4668
2008-05-14 12:34:46	kowey	set	nosy: tommy, beschmi, kowey, wglozer, eivuokko, dagit, rgm, jaredj, shmulbox, shmul messages: + msg4669
2008-05-14 14:42:55	shmul	set	files: + darcs_test.zip nosy: tommy, beschmi, kowey, wglozer, eivuokko, dagit, rgm, jaredj, shmulbox, shmul messages: + msg4694
2008-05-14 15:01:40	kowey	set	nosy: tommy, beschmi, kowey, wglozer, eivuokko, dagit, rgm, jaredj, shmulbox, shmul messages: + msg4695 title: add => do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory) [Windows] -> add => do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory)
2008-05-14 15:02:01	kowey	set	nosy: tommy, beschmi, kowey, wglozer, eivuokko, dagit, rgm, jaredj, shmulbox, shmul assignedto: shmulbox -> kowey
2008-05-14 15:05:12	kowey	set	nosy: tommy, beschmi, kowey, wglozer, eivuokko, dagit, rgm, jaredj, shmulbox, shmul title: add => do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory) -> Windows: add => do_stat: does not exist (No such file or directory)
2008-05-14 15:09:42	kowey	set	nosy: tommy, beschmi, kowey, wglozer, eivuokko, dagit, rgm, jaredj, shmulbox, shmul messages: + msg4696
2008-08-13 23:07:46	kowey	set	nosy: + darcs-devel, shmulbox, simon, - shmulbox assignedto: kowey ->
2008-10-16 12:58:29	kowey	set	nosy: + dmitry.kurochkin, thorkilnaur messages: + msg6331