[jcifs] Re: Crazy Copy Tests

[Michael B Allen]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:15:41 -0400
Michael B Allen <mba2000 at ioplex.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:05:05 +0200
> Thomas Bley <thomas.bley at simple-groupware.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Mike, hi all,
> > 
> > I am doing some crazy tests at the moment:
> > 1)
> >          SmbFile from = new SmbFile( 
> > "smb://administrator:aaa@192.168.63.1:139/administrator/asd2/" );
> >          SmbFile to = new SmbFile( 
> > "smb://administrator:aaa@192.168.63.1:139/administrator/asd2/" );
> >          from.copyTo( to );
> > 
> > This code sets all files in asd2 to 0kb size.
> > 
> > 2)
> >          SmbFile from = new SmbFile( 
> > "smb://administrator:aaa@192.168.63.1:139/administrator/asd2/" );
> >          SmbFile to = new SmbFile( 
> > "smb://administrator:aaa@192.168.63.1:139/administrator/asd2/existingdir/" 
> > );
> >          from.copyTo( to );
> > 
> > This causes a big recursion with many "existingdir" copied into each 
> > other, e.g. you get asd2/existingdir/existingdir/existingdir/ ...
> > On a windows or samba server this is no problem, the path length has a 
> > maximum of ~500 characters, samba has ~1000 characters, but NetApp has 
> > no limit ...
> > 
> > Do you think these cases should be stopped by jCIFS or the rather the 
> > program that uses the library like my webdisk ?
> 
> I think I can block these. Pls check the next release to see if my
> modifications are satisfactory.

This is fixed in 1.2.2 to be released RSN. Trying to use a source path
that is a parent of, decendant of, or equal to the destination path will
fail immediately before anything is copied with the error: "Source and
destination paths overlap."

Mike