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Re: [Patch] To handle Win32 pipe names
On May 19 10:08, Brian Ford wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > So that explains your patch to symlink_info::check. But it's not
> > exactly right to circumvent this only for pipes. Any \\.\foo path
> > should get the same handling. Wouldn't it be more straightforward to
> > use is_unc_share or a slightly modified version of is_unc_share?
>
> I'm confused here. Are you suggesting that UNC paths can't contain
> symlinks?
No. It should be short-circuited for //./foo and //server/pipe/foo,
not for any other UNC path.
Corinna
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