From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Fix the ':A' word modifier on paths with '..' components.
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 21:20:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160703212058.07314f77@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160701090529.ZM9013@torch.brasslantern.com>
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 09:05:29 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 5:11am, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> } Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Fix the ':A' word modifier on paths with '..'
> }
> } What's the use-case for the "resolve '..' before symlinks" behaviour?
> }
> } Was it an intentional design feature, or simply a documented bug?
> } (Honest question.)
>
> PWS will have to weigh in on that one. The use-case may simply have
> been the intention to make :A a superset of :a.
I think making :A a superset of :a was all there was to it. I don't
think there was any specific strategy for dealing with non-obvious cases
involving "..".
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-03 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-10 17:36 [PATCH 1/3] Tests: Add tests for the ':a' and ':A' modifiers Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-10 17:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] Fix the ':A' word modifier on paths with '..' components Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-10 18:54 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-06-10 19:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-06-12 14:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-12 16:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-06-13 8:52 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-21 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Tests: Add tests for the ':a' and ':A' modifiers Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-21 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Fix the ':A' word modifier on paths with '..' components Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-21 3:08 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-06-25 16:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-25 16:47 ` Mikael Magnusson
2016-06-27 0:20 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-28 14:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-07-01 5:11 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-07-01 16:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-07-03 20:20 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2016-07-05 4:57 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-21 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Clean up chabspath() [':a' word modifier] Daniel Shahaf
2016-06-10 17:36 ` [PATCH " Daniel Shahaf
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