Leading spaces in file names

[teradactyl]

We are testing a backup and restore application. We are able to properly
backup the file names and name spaces. On restore we are having problems
with open/creat. The most common problem is filenames with leading
spaces, the files are created w/o the leading spaces. I tried FEcreat and
it didn't help. Is there a more appropriate function in CLIB or a way to
construct the name of the file before calling creat, such that we get the
desired result?

Thanks in advance,
Kris

[Roger Thomas, Dev SysOp 22]

I've been unable to find any docs from Novell regarding the issue of
leading spaces, but I can say that any interface pre WIN32 is likely to
have issues as MS added the feature 'late' to their file systems. From some
basic testing I've done, much of even WIN 2000 can not handle leading spaces.

As for FEcreat, the API call dates back to NW3 which means that it was
developed to support the 8.3 file names of DOS 5.

Roger Thomas, Dev SysOp 22

"teradactyl" <kw...@teradactyl.com> wrote in message news:k58je.549$252...@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com...

[Dmitry Mityugov, Developer Services SysOp 8]

Kris,

Cannot reproduce. When I run the program below with parameter "nssvol1:
123", it creates file " 123" without removing the leading space. Are you
sure your program is setting the correct source name space before creating
files?

#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <nwerrno.h>
#include <nwfileng.h>
#include <nwnspace.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main( int argc, char* argv[]) {
int handle;
if ( argc != 2) {
printf( "Usage: %s <file>\n", argv[ 0]);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
printf( "file = '%s'\n", argv[ 1]);
SetCurrentNameSpace( LONGNameSpace);
handle = FEsopen( argv[ 1], O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, SH_DENYRW, 0,
DELETE_FILE_ON_CREATE_BIT, PrimaryDataStream);
if ( handle == -1) {
printf( "FEsopen failed, errno = %d (%s), NetWareErrno = %d\n", errno,
strerror( errno), NetWareErrno);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
close( handle);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

--
Dmitry Mityugov, Developer Services SysOp 8

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