Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/24/16:44:30
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:30:57PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:56:44PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:52:34PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>> >Hi Corinna,
>> >
>> >>>Looks pretty similar to me, but I was looking for the following:
>> >>>
>> >>>$ ls -ldin .\\tmp ./tmp
>> >>>2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 ./tmp/
>> >>>2805415844195 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 .\tmp/
>> >>>
>> >>>I came to that "program" by reducing the find soure to the bare
>> >>>minimum to show that problem.
>> >>>
>> >>>So again, is this an expected/tolerated behaviour?
>> >>
>> >>Yes, it's by design. The answer is "don't use DOS paths".
>> >
>> >It's nice to be mean, isn't it?
>>
>> How about some clarification: "Don't use DOS paths if you want
>> consistent i-nodes?"
>>
>> You're welcome to use DOS paths if you want. You just can't expect
>> UNIX-style behavior from them.
>
>I also had a look at the code and reached pretty much the same conclusion
>as Volker. Replacing all 'isslash (*src)' and 'isslash (src[x])' in
>normalize_posix_path by "isdirsep ()" would yield more consistent results.
>I know this code is delicate but the possible drawback isn't obvious.
speed disadvantage for nebulous gain.
cgf
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