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Re: [PATCH]: Still path.cc


On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:58:25AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:58:40PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> >It's a safe time to take care of a few nits...
>> >
>> >2004-09-22  Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
>> >
>> >       * path.cc (normalize_win32_path): Only look for : in second position.
>> >       Avoid infinite loop with names starting in double dots.
>> >       (mount_info::conv_to_win32_path): Do not worry about a trailing dot.
>> 
>> Why not worry about a trailing dot?  Is it handled somewhere else?  The
>> intent is to make the inode of /foo/.  == /foo .
>
>Yes, that's handled in the appropriate normalize_xx_path function,
>together with xx/./yy , xx/../yy, and friends.

I'm just dotting i's but I notice that dir.cc calls hash_path_name with
an argument of ".".  That still works?

cgf


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