From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: tail-dropping in files module mkdir
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 20:40:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000804204021.A7925@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1000804161026.ZM28907@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 04:10:25PM +0000
> It can just keep lopping the tail as long as (errno == ENOENT ||
> errno == ENOTDIR), I think. There are some special cases involving paths
I was assuming that there would be non-mkdir cases where this
would result in the wrong filesystem being selected, but I can't
think of such a situation.
> that contain "../" that I'm a bit worried about, but I think most of
> those (and paths with lots of consecutive slashes) would fail zsh's
> constant-PATH_MAX tests already in boundary cases, so probably nothing
> will become broken that wasn't already.
I suggest a compat.c wrapper around realpath(). Is subsuming
LGPL- or BSD-licensed code objectionable?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-05 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-04 14:53 Clint Adams
2000-08-04 15:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-04 15:32 ` Clint Adams
2000-08-04 16:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-05 0:40 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2000-08-04 7:02 ` PATCH: pathconf() again Bart Schaefer
2000-08-04 13:19 ` Clint Adams
2000-08-04 18:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-05 0:52 ` Clint Adams
2000-08-05 4:48 ` PATCH: tail-dropping in files module mkdir Bart Schaefer
2000-08-07 18:04 ` Clint Adams
2000-08-07 20:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-08 11:40 ` Clint Adams
2000-08-08 21:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-09 14:25 ` PATH_MAX vs. _PC_PATH_MAX vs. POSIX (was Re: PATCH: tail-dropping in files module mkdir) Clint Adams
2000-08-09 17:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-09 17:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-05 6:45 ` PATCH: pathconf() again Wayne Davison
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