[darcs-users] Windows Problems, "The system cannot find the file specified"

[Martin R. Fisher]

Good call, 

I retried the original path (I'd already tried that a
few times back before I posted, but what the heck),
and it still fails.

So,  instead of "C:\devel" which works, I used "C:\the
dir" which *doesn't*;

The filename, BTW never got more than 140 chars, even
for the .gz files used by darcs.

Martin
--- Alexander Staubo <alex at byzantine.no> wrote:

> Martin R. Fisher wrote:
> > OK, 
> > 
> > Digging thru the output from Filemon we see:
> > ...\darcs-15743	SUCCESS	FileFsVolumeInformation	
> > ...\darcs-15743	BUFFER OVERFLOW	FileAllInformation
> > 
> > so I rebuild my repo much higher up the directory
> path
> > (originally it was something like C:\Documents and
> > Settings\mrcf\My Documents\devel\xxxxxxxxx\)
> > 
> > and it works!
> 
> The BUFFER_OVERFLOW error is usually benign, though;
> many Windows 
> functions operate by having the caller provide a
> buffer of a set size, 
> and the function aborting if the buffer if too
> small, whereupon the 
> caller is supposed to increase the buffer size and
> try again. This is 
> probably also the case here.
> 
> How long was the original path? Windows' maximum
> path length is 260 
> characters, and I have hit that ceiling only a
> couple of times in my 
> career. Also, does your new path contain spaces? I
> notice your original 
> is "C:\Documents and Settings\...".
> 
> Can you try copying your rebuilt repo to the old
> location and trying 
> again? It could be the "rebuilding" part that solved
> it.
> 
> If we can pin down the exact cause of the error,
> some of the Haskell 
> developers (I'm not one yet) can add a regression
> test to the Darcs test 
> suite.
> 
> Alexander.
> 


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