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Re: [Patch]: 3 or more initial slashes
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:45:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Patch]: 3 or more initial slashes
- References: <40855FF9.33C9C5DF@phumblet.no-ip.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:38:01PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>POSIX specifies that three ore more slashes at the beginning
>of a pathname are equivalent to a single one.
>This patch implements that feature.
>Only Posix paths are affected, Windows paths are left alone.
>Also, Posix paths are never handled by normalize_win32_path
>anymore.
>
>2004-04-20 Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
>
> * path.cc (normalize_posix_path): Process all Posix paths and
> map three or more initial slashes to a single one. Simplify
> processing following two initial slashes.
> (normalize_win32_path): Make last argument non-optional and
> do not check for NULL value.
Applied.
Thanks.
cgf