[Rd] normalizePath bug (PR#13199)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/23/2008 1:59 PM, Joseph Haykov wrote:
> Actually, it's a new file that I plan on writing to, so while the  
> directory C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOSEPH~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\RtmpolZ4Vy exists, the  
> file file72ae2cd6.txt does not. However, this was working fine in version  
> 2.6.2. If you're saying that the reason why this doesn't work is because  
> the file does not exist, I can easily work around the issue.

That's a likely cause.  2.7.0 changed the method of normalizing the 
path, and it now relies on Windows API calls to do it.  However, up to 
2.8.0 it wasn't checking for an error return from those.  I've fixed 
that now, so your string now gives me

 > 
normalizePath("C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOSEPH~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\RtmpolZ4Vy\\file72ae2cd6.txt")
Error in normalizePath(path) : Unable to normalize element 1

The Windows docs don't list all possible reasons for an error return, so 
I'm not sure that's what you saw, but it does seem likely.  Please do 
let me know if creating the file is not sufficient to get it to work for 
you.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Joe Haykov
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:49:42 -0400, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>  
> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/23/2008 10:45 AM, joe at novelcap.com wrote:
>>> Full_Name: Joseph Haykov
>>> Version: 2.8.0
>>> OS: Windows
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (216.189.177.202)
>>>    
>>> normalizePath("C:\\DOCUME~1\\JOSEPH~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\RtmpolZ4Vy\\file72ae2cd6.txt")
>>>  returns: "\0354xl|\a&#144;\001 $v\001¨y8"
>>>  instead of returning:
>>>  "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Joseph Haykov\\Local
>>> Settings\\Temp\\RtmpolZ4Vy\\file72ae2cd6.txt"
>>>  By the way, this works correctly in version 2.6.2
>>
>> I see the problem, and will look into it.  It first started failing in  
>> 2.7.0; it's not a new bug.
>>
>> But I'm not sure it's a bug, since that directory doesn't exist on my  
>> system, and the function is documented to give undefined results in that  
>> case.  Does that file exist on your system?
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>