local_path_to_url('/') return file:///C:/ on windows

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:57 AM, John Arbash Meinel
| <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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|> I've been trying to figure out if this is intentional behavior or not.
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|> Basically, awilkens on IRC noticed that if you do 'bzr serve --directory=/'
|> on
|> windows, you still can only serve branches in the current drive.
|>
|> Note that internally, bzr is using the url "file:///C:/...".
|>
|> I just tried doing "bzr serve --directory=file:///", but that actually gets
|> interpreted as $PWD/file:/.
|>
|> I don't see any real reason why we shouldn't be exposing the directory at
|> '/'
|> rather than file:///C:/.
|
| I think it probably should be file:///.  You may of course be able to
| work around that by giving that url on the command line.
|
| Serving your whole filesystem even readonly may be a bit insecure of
| course, but if it's a home network it might make sense.
|

It is what bzr+ssh does. 'ssh host bzr serve --inet --directory=/'

If you use "file:///" to give a url, it just treats it as a local path and does
"$PWD/file:/"

John
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