[PATCH]: Still stripping

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:42:15AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>In a case such as "abc..exe", the posix_path "abc." should not be
>stripped. The patch below only strips the posix path if the win32
>path was stripped. I don't think that the posix path can be empty
>in that case.
>
>2004-12-23  Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
>
>	* path.h (path_conv::set_normalized_path): Add second argument.
>	* path.cc (path_conv::check): Declare, set and use "strip_tail".
>	(path_conv::set_normalized_path): Add and use second argument,
>	replacing all tail stripping tests.
>

I'm not sure that your assumption of dot stripping is true in the first
case of set_normalized_path in build_fh_dev in dtable.cc.  I do like the
idea of letting the previously derived path_conv tail stripping test
control whether set_normalized_path does stripping or not, though.

I have grown to dislike default parameters in c++.  I'm not sure why because
I used to think they were pretty nifty.  So, I'll check in your patch minus
the default and keeping the original while loop in set_normalized_path
more or less intact.

cgf