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Re: [PATCH]: Still path.cc
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