[PATCH]: Still path.cc

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 22 13:44:00 GMT 2004


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...
>
>While testing, I noticed in dir.cc that __d_dirent->d_ino
>is always set by hashing the pathname :(

This has been discussed many times throughout the years.

>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 .

cgf



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