proposal: substitute-path handles foreign dir separators

[Raphael Zulliger]

On 17.12.2010 16:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> There were discussions on this a few months ago, you may wish to look
> them up.
I just tried to look it up but I couldn't find the particular discussion 
unless you refer to the one mentioned by Pedor Alves:

<http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-04/msg00759.html>

> This isn't the right way, for 2 reasons:
>
>   . It makes the code uglier than it must be.
>
>   . The support for DOS-style file names is based on compile-time
>     macros, so it cannot be turned on and off.  Thus, you leave no fire
>     escape for Unix users who just happen to have file names with
>     literal backslashes, improbable as that may be.
I agree with both. I didn't thought about the case of using escaped file 
names on Unix systems.
> In this part, I simply don't understand why you needed the
> HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM branch.  DOS/Windows file-system calls
> support forward slashes just fine, so there's no need to rewrite the
> slashes.
Thanks. Somehow I wasn't aware of that.
> Finally, please wait for other opinions, as I'm not sure mine is in
> consensus.
>
I think we should forget about my patch as I posted it. Let's continue 
the discussion based on Pedros patch instead.

Thanks.
Raphael