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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:50:15 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: RESEND: Patch to computer st_blksize in struct stat
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Hello.

Charles Sandmann wrote:
[snip]
> > +
> > +   _fixpath(path, fixed_path);
> > +   d = tolower(path[0]) - 'a';
> 
> Calling fixpath just to get the drive letter seems like overkill here.
> If the in path has a ':' in the second char we could use it; else get
> the current drive.

I thought fixpath() would be needed to cope with joined paths, because I
thought that the source & target of the join could have different block
sizes. (I have to admit that I can't remember if you can actually have
joins between different drive letters.)

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe
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