startup warning on win98
Martin Pool
mbp at sourcefrog.net
Thu Jul 12 09:43:12 BST 2007
http://bundlebuggy.aaronbentley.com/request/%3Cd80792120706181317l610dbf71j641087722317699a@mail.gmail.com%3E
This patch is still hanging around in BB. Alexander said he likes the
second part but not the first. Should I go ahead and merge the second
bit?
=== modified file 'bzrlib/win32utils.py'
--- bzrlib/win32utils.py 2007-02-03 15:02:06 +0000
+++ bzrlib/win32utils.py 2007-06-18 20:05:56 +0000
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
else:
# don't care about real Windows name, just to force safe operations
winver = 'Windows 98'
+ sys.stderr.write("bzr: WARNING: "
+ "win98 is known broken, because it doesn't support\n"
+ "shared locking of files (there is no LockFileEx() api)\n")
else:
winver = None
@@ -169,7 +172,7 @@
# at least return windows root directory
windir = os.environ.get('windir')
if windir:
- return os.path.splitdrive(windir) + '/'
+ return os.path.splitdrive(windir)[0] + '/'
# otherwise C:\ is good enough for 98% users
return 'C:/'
--
Martin
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