Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:26:19 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] use S_ISDIR() in link_path_walk() to decide whether the last path component is a directory |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:34:15PM -0500, David Dabbs wrote: > I'm working on something similar, but with alternate pathname resolution > when the path begins with exactly two slashes. Only pseudocode here because > I do not have access to my box: > > if (*name == '/') { > if (*(name+1)=='/' && *(name+2)==':') { > name+=3;
Pathname resolution is a hell of a fundamental thing and kludges like that are too ugly to be acceptable. If you can't make that clean and have to resort to stuffing "special cases" (read: barfbag of ioctl magnitude) into the areas that might be unspecified by POSIX, don't do it at all.
I don't like the amount of handwaving from Hans, but *that* is far worse. Vetoed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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