From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: Path handling bug
27 Aug 1998 09:44:52 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDD1F9.ECC669D0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Hi!

path.cc	(path_conv::path_conv): remove trailing backslach from full win32 name,
		otherwice the last component of the path doesn't checked for symlink
		(GetFileAttributes("C:\dir\file\") always fails).

--- path.cc.orig        Thu Aug 27 19:23:25 1998
+++ path.cc     Thu Aug 27 20:27:43 1998
@@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ path_conv::path_conv (const char *src, i
          break;
        }

+      if (full_path[strlen (full_path) - 1] == '\\')
+       full_path[strlen (full_path) - 1] = 0;
+
       DWORD fileattr;
       if ((fileattr = GetFileAttributes (full_path)) != (DWORD)-1 &&
          !SYMLINKATTR (fileattr))

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia