Fix assertion failure in path_search() on Windows

Also fix the similar potential assertion failure in fdstream.

3 files changed, 35 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/libbutl/fdstream.cxx b/libbutl/fdstream.cxx
index 0a5525c..377681e 100644
--- a/libbutl/fdstream.cxx
+++ b/libbutl/fdstream.cxx
@@ -1567,11 +1567,19 @@ namespace butl
     }
     catch (const system_error& e)
     {
-      // Make sure that the error denotes errno portable code.
+      // Re-throw system_error as ios::failure, preserving the error category
+      // and description.
       //
-      assert (e.code ().category () == generic_category ());
+      int v (e.code ().value ());
+      const error_category& c (e.code ().category ());
 
-      throw_generic_ios_failure (e.code ().value ());
+      if (c == generic_category ())
+        throw_generic_ios_failure (v);
+      else
+      {
+        assert (c == system_category ());
+        throw_system_ios_failure (v, e.what ());
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/libbutl/filesystem.cxx b/libbutl/filesystem.cxx
index 7db26a5..9e8a232 100644
--- a/libbutl/filesystem.cxx
+++ b/libbutl/filesystem.cxx
@@ -2573,11 +2573,14 @@ namespace butl
         //
         // Make sure that the error denotes errno portable code.
         //
-        assert (e.code ().category () == generic_category ());
+        if (e.code ().category () == generic_category ())
+        {
+          int ec (e.code ().value ());
+          if (ec == ENOENT || ec == ENOTDIR)
+            return;
+        }
 
-        int ec (e.code ().value ());
-        if (ec != ENOENT && ec != ENOTDIR)
-          throw;
+        throw;
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/libbutl/utility.cxx b/libbutl/utility.cxx
index c23d3f5..bbeafd2 100644
--- a/libbutl/utility.cxx
+++ b/libbutl/utility.cxx
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ namespace std
     // Invalid data.\r\n
     //
     size_t n (string::traits_type::length (s));
-    for (; n > 0; --n)
+    for (; n != 0; --n)
     {
       switch (s[n-1])
       {
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ namespace std
     // Check if the string ends with the specified suffix and return its
     // length if that's the case. So can be used as bool.
     //
-    auto suffix = [s, n] (const char* v) -> size_t
+    auto suffix = [s, &n] (const char* v) -> size_t
     {
       size_t nv (string::traits_type::length (v));
       return (n >= nv && string::traits_type::compare (s + n - nv, v, nv) == 0
@@ -419,17 +419,27 @@ namespace std
               : 0);
     };
 
+    // Note that in some cases we need to re-throw exception using a different
+    // type, for example system_error as ios::failure. In such cases these
+    // suffixed may accumulate, for example:
+    //
+    // Access denied. : Success.: Success.
+    //
+    // Thus, we will strip them in a loop.
+    //
     size_t ns;
-    if ((ns = suffix (". : Success"))  ||
-        (ns = suffix (". : No error")) ||
-        (ns = suffix (". : The operation completed successfully")))
-      n -= ns;
+    while ((ns = suffix (": Success"))  ||
+           (ns = suffix (": No error")) ||
+           (ns = suffix (": The operation completed successfully")))
+    {
+      for (n -= ns; n != 0 && (s[n-1] == '.' || s[n-1] == ' '); --n) ;
+    }
 
     // Lower-case the first letter if the beginning looks like a word (the
     // second character is the lower-case letter or space).
     //
     char c;
-    bool lc (n > 0 && alpha (c = s[0]) && c == ucase (c) &&
+    bool lc (n != 0 && alpha (c = s[0]) && c == ucase (c) &&
              (n == 1 || (alpha (c = s[1]) && c == lcase (c)) || c == ' '));
 
     // Print the description as is if no adjustment is required.