bugs in chdir()?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Dec 2 22:05:00 GMT 2000


On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:45:16AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:47:39PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>$ cd '\TEMP'		# Use Win32 style path with a backslash.
>>$ pwd
>>/TEMP			# No such directory.
>>
>>I think they are not bugs of chdir(), but bugs of the path
>>conversions and revealed via chdir(). The strace logs are
>>attached below.
>
>Your analysis was correct.  The path handling code did not correctly
>add a missing drive spec.  I think I've fixed that.
>
>Thanks for the report.

Nuts.  I just realized that my simplistic change breaks native UNC path
handling.

I'll fix this tomorrow.

cgf


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