lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Mar 25 15:34:00 GMT 2004


On Mar 24 23:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:39:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:42:39PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:30:57PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >>>
> >>>I also had a look at the code and reached pretty much the same conclusion
> >>>as Volker. Replacing all 'isslash (*src)' and 'isslash (src[x])' in
> >>>normalize_posix_path by "isdirsep ()" would yield more consistent results.
> >>>I know this code is delicate but the possible drawback isn't obvious.
> >>
> >>speed disadvantage for nebulous gain.
> > 
> >As you know isdirsep would take 1 extra compare per character.
> >
> >FWIW I see one place where we could avoid the kind of loop that Volker had.
> >
> >I wonder if 
> >      char *p = strrchr (src, '\0');
> >      /* Detect if the user was looking for a directory.  We have to strip the
> >should be inside the symlink loop or outside. I guess that depends if
> >symlink contents ending with / are special (on Sun the final / is stripped in
> >symlinks, dunno about other Unix flavors).
> >
> >Also normalize_posix_path strips the final /, except when it calls 
> >normalize_win32_path. That makes the code go through extra hoops
> >when resolving c:/the/symlink/, it looks for c:/the/symlink/.lnk
> 
> Corinna!  Did I predict this or what?
> 
> I'm quitting my job and getting a job as a psychic in the carnival!

Naaah, that prediction trick was a bit too obvious.

Corinna

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