Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts

Pierre A. Humblet pierre@phumblet.no-ip.org
Mon Dec 20 16:18:00 GMT 2004



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?

Pierre



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