On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:03:22PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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.
One problem that it would circumvent is that currently, if you do this: ls /bin...................................... You'll get a listing of the bin directory. If you move the code to conv_to_win32_path that may not be as easy to get right. cgf
