[Patch] To handle Win32 pipe names

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May 19 10:08, Brian Ford wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > So that explains your patch to symlink_info::check.  But it's not
> > exactly right to circumvent this only for pipes.  Any \\.\foo path
> > should get the same handling.  Wouldn't it be more straightforward to
> > use is_unc_share or a slightly modified version of is_unc_share?
> 
> I'm confused here.  Are you suggesting that UNC paths can't contain
> symlinks?

No.  It should be short-circuited for //./foo and //server/pipe/foo,
not for any other UNC path.


Corinna

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