[PATCH]: Still path.cc

Pierre A. Humblet pierre@phumblet.no-ip.org
Wed Sep 22 13:58:00 GMT 2004



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.

Pierre



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