On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:06:07AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:03:22PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Dec 16 10:57, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:53:39PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >Since the mount code is called from path_conv anyway, wouldn't it be >>> >better to pass the information "managed mount or not" up to path_conv? >>> >>> How about just doing the pathname munging in `conv_to_win32_path' if/when >>> it's needed? >> >>Erm... I'm not quite sure, but didn't the "remove trailing dots and spaces" >>code start there and has been moved to path_conv by Pierre to circumvent >>some problem? I recall only very vaguely right now. > >One problem that it would circumvent is that currently, if you do this: > >ls /bin...................................... > >You'll get a listing of the bin directory. If you move the code to >conv_to_win32_path that may not be as easy to get right.
That's the problem with somehow getting the information back to path_conv::check, too, I think. It's a chicken/egg situation. You need to regularize the path name before looking through the mount table to find out if the file is controlled by a managed mount. cgf