On 6/10/19 12:58 AM, Noah Misch wrote:
> Several TAP test suites have a need to translate from an msys path to a
> Windows path. They currently use two ways to do that:
>
> 1. TestLib::real_dir, new in v11, is sound but works for directories only.
> 2. The $vfs_path approach is semi-private to PostgresNode.pm and 017_shm.pl,
> and it does not work if the file falls in a mount point other than "/".
> For example, it has been doing the wrong thing when builddir is
> /c/nm/postgresql (falling in mount point /c).
>
> I'd like to fix the mount point problem and consolidate these two methods. I
> plan to call it TestLib::perl2host, since it translates a path in Perl's
> notion of the filesystem to a path in the @host@ notion of the filesystem.
> Attached.
Looks sane enough. I think I had to work round this recently by using a
Windows symlink/junction.
I haven't tested it.
cheers
andrew
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