guess what caller meant when they give us bad path name

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/base/trunk@26197 72102866-910b-0410-8b05-ffd578937521

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-03-05  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
+
+	* Source/NSBundle.m Make better guess at what the caller meant when
+	they give us a non-absolute path name on mingw.
+
 2008-03-03  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
 
 	* Source/NSNull.m: Make result of description method match MacOSX

Source/NSBundle.m

@@ -1231,8 +1231,39 @@ _bundle_load_callback(Class theClass, struct objc_category *theCategory)
     {
       NSWarnMLog(@"NSBundle -initWithPath: requires absolute path names, "
 	@"given '%@'", path);
+
+#if defined(__MINGW32__)
+      if ([path length] > 0 &&
+	([path characterAtIndex: 0]=='/' || [path characterAtIndex: 0]=='\\'))
+	{
+	  NSString	*root;
+	  unsigned	length;
+
+	  /* The path has a leading path separator, so we try assuming
+	   * that it's a path on the current filesystem, and append it
+	   * to the filesystem root.
+	   */
+	  root = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] currentDirectoryPath];
+	  length = [root length];
+	  root = [root stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];
+	  while ([root length] != length)
+	    {
+	      length = [root length];
+	      root = [root stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];
+	    }
+	  path = [root stringByAppendingPathComponent: path];
+	}
+      else
+	{
+	  /* Try appending to the current working directory.
+	   */
+	  path = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] currentDirectoryPath]
+	    stringByAppendingPathComponent: path];
+	}
+#else
       path = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] currentDirectoryPath]
-	       stringByAppendingPathComponent: path];
+        stringByAppendingPathComponent: path];
+#endif
     }
 
   /*

Testing/basic.m

@@ -1,8 +1,48 @@
-#include <Foundation/Foundation.h>
-int main ()
-{
-  static unsigned char bytes[9] = {'\355', '\264', '\200', '\346', '\224', '\200', '\347', '\214', '\200'};
-  NSString *s = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes: bytes length: 9 encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
-  NSLog(@"s %@", s);
-  return 0;
-}
+/* Demonstration of windows NSTask launching bug */
+
+#include "Foundation/Foundation.h"
+
+int main()
+{
+  CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL(arp);
+
+  NSTask        *task;
+  NSProcessInfo *info;
+  NSDictionary  *env;
+  NSString      *path;
+
+  info = [NSProcessInfo processInfo];
+  env  = [info environment];
+
+#if defined(__MINGW32__)
+  path = @"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\net.exe";
+//  path = @"E:\\WINNT\\system32\\net.exe";
+#else
+  path = @"/bin/ls";
+#endif
+  printf("Determined command to run as '%s'\n",[path lossyCString]);
+
+  task = [NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath: path
+		 arguments: [NSArray array]];
+  [task waitUntilExit];
+
+  printf("First task has completed\n");
+
+
+#if defined(__MINGW32__)
+  path = @"C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\mem.exe";
+//  path = @"E:\\WINNT\\system32\\mem.exe";
+#else
+  path = @"/bin/ls";
+#endif
+  printf("Determined command to run as '%s'\n",[path lossyCString]);
+
+  task = [NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath: path
+		 arguments: [NSArray array]];
+  [task waitUntilExit];
+
+  printf("Second task has completed\n");
+
+  DESTROY(arp);
+  return 0;
+}