Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Thu Dec 16 16:02:00 GMT 2004


On Dec 16 10:57, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:53:39PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Since the mount code is called from path_conv anyway, wouldn't it be
> >better to pass the information "managed mount or not" up to path_conv?
> 
> How about just doing the pathname munging in `conv_to_win32_path' if/when
> it's needed?

Erm... I'm not quite sure, but didn't the "remove trailing dots and spaces"
code start there and has been moved to path_conv by Pierre to circumvent
some problem?  I recall only very vaguely right now.

Corinna

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