PATCH: (gda-dev2): deal with windows paths
Phil Longstaff
plongstaff at rogers.com
Mon Jan 21 12:23:58 EST 2008
Nathan Buchanan wrote:
> Hi Phil!
>
> Please find attached a patch that allows the gda backend to work with
> windows paths of the form c:\path\to\file.db
>
> Previously the code in gnc-backend-gda.c tried to eliminate file://
> prefixes by looking for a colon and then removing everything before
> the colon and the two chars after the colon. Applying this strategy to
> the windows paths makes the code happily find the colon, and then take
> out part of the path. It would progress and eventually crash at line
> 159 when it assumes there are two colons in the string and assigns to
> a null pointer.
>
> This patch solves the problem by looking for more than simply a colon,
> but actually looks for the "://" string before removing it.
Applied.
Phil
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