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Re: [Patch]: c:.


On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 06:20:15PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 11:58 PM 5/15/2004 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 11:40:18PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>>At 10:57 PM 5/15/2004 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 10:35:40PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>>>>I have run more tests and noticed that c:. and c:..
>>>>>are now interpreted as c:/
>>>>>That's because of the new code that strips trailing dots
>>>>>and spaces. 
>>>>
>>>>Shouldn't it be interpreted as c:/?  Since c: is interpreted
>>>>as c:/, shouldn't c:/.. be interpreted as c:/?
>>>
>>>As I am talking about c:. and c:.., not c:/..
>>>Currently c:. is the current directory of drive c:
>>>and c:.. is its parent.
>>
>>Quoting from path.cc:
>>
>>   Each DOS drive is defined to have a current directory.  Supporting
>>   this would complicate things so for now things are defined so that
>>   c: means c:\.
>
>The comment isn't completely accurate. Windows seems to take care of 
>maintaining the environment. My previous e-mail showed examples.

Windows 9x does.  Windows NT doesn't.  You can confuse Windows NT if you
try.

c:\>cd \tmp\bob
c:\>m:
m:\>bash
bash$ env - bash
bash$ ls m:..

This "incorrectly" displays the root drive of c: .  So, again, previous
versions were wrong.  c:.  and c:..  should be interpreted as c:\.

cgf


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