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Re: Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >Stripping from the Posix path can't be done during normalize_
> >because it would apply to all paths (not only disk).
>
> Why can't we just strip the dots from the path in
> path_conv::set_normalized path?
You can, after checking the device. But why do it all
the time if it's only needed by chdir?
Pierre