Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:01:23 +0200
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:34:01 -0500 (CDT)
>  
> > I don't understand why do you object to the solution I proposed.  If
> > UNCs never happen in truename's result, all we pay is a bunch of
> > character comparisons.  If they do happen, we had better DTRT, even if
> > it costs one more call to truename, possibly one more call to getdisk,
> > and some character string manipulations.
> 
> I don't object to it, I'm just trying to find out when it might ever be
> used (for testing, validation).  So far we have gone 7 years without having
> the truename backup code in there at all, so I'm hard pressed to understand
> why we would need to handle all these sub-cases, and validate they actually 
> behave correctly. 

The call to getcwd didn't need this backup because getcwd never
returns a UNC.  _truename did, at least in my testing.