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Re: Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:18:05AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> >Stripping from the Posix path can't be done during normalize_
>> >because it would apply to all paths (not only disk).
>>
>> Why can't we just strip the dots from the path in
>> path_conv::set_normalized path?
>
>You can, after checking the device. But why do it all
>the time if it's only needed by chdir?
It just seems more consistent and safer to do the same thing to both the
win32 and posix paths. chroot probably needs it too. After removing
the code from normalize_posix_path, this is probably not a performance
hit.
cgf