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Re: another instance of .. issues


On Feb 22 13:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 06:16:25PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> >On 22 February 2006 17:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:21:48AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> >>>I think implementing openat() directly would be the clear win here,
> >>>since the ".." processing seems to be such a landmine.  Of course
> >>>without a patch this is just hot air on my part.
> >>
> >>But, then, it has been at least a couple of months since we've had a
> >>rousing discussion about how awful cygwin's '..' handling is, so it's
> >>clearly time to go into great depth about how useful it would be if
> >>cygwin just did things the RIGHT, the TRUE, the POSIX way.
> >
> >How many reinstalls does that usually take?  ;-)
> 
> You take the number of cygwin developers required to change a
> POSIX-powered light bulb and multiply by 42.

I wouldn't want to waste a POSIX-powered light bulb for non-POSIX
functions.


Corinna

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