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Re: Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:43:47PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 10:27 PM 12/16/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:26:27PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>I don't see how it could be correct for the slash checking code not to
>>>be "in the loop".  Won't this cause a problem if you've done
>>
>>Ah, nevermind.  I see that your patch handles that.
>>
>OK.
>
>The key point in my patch is that it's the output Win32 path
>that must be checked, not the input path.

How can that be?  As I mentioned previously, if you don't perform the
fixups prior to inspecting the mount table then "ls /bin.........."
won't work.

cgf


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