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Subject: Re: fileutils 4.1: ls and symlinks [PATCH]
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 Dec 30, 2002 12:13:14 pm"
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According to Richard Dawe:
> Below is a patch for 'ls' from fileutils 4.1. It's another case
> where the path handling needs to be updated to cope
> with DOS-style absolute paths.
> 
> This patch is important, because the test suite uses symlinks
> extensively and uses 'ls' to check that 'cp', 'mv', etc.
> handle symlinks correctly.
...
> --- gnu.dev/filutil4.1-rel/src/ls.c	2002-10-06 10:33:32.000000000 +0000
> +++ gnu.dev/filutil4.1-rel.work/src/ls.c	2002-12-18 16:54:04.000000000 +0000
> @@ -2155,6 +2155,13 @@ make_link_path (const char *path, const 
>    if (linkname == 0)
>      return 0;
>  
> +#ifdef MSDOS
> +  /* Any filename with a drive specification should be
> +   * treated as an absolute pathname on MS-DOS.  */
> +  if (linkname[0] && (linkname[1] == ':'))
> +    return xstrdup (linkname);
> +#endif

Uhoh! That's not true. If in COMMAND.COM I do "a:
cd \dos
c:
cp aaa.tst a:" I think aaa.tst should go into a:/dos not into a:/. At
least that's what's been happening to me with some version cp while
I've been moving files between computers which doesn't have a network
connection.

I think for an absolute path in DOZE should start with / or X:/. (And
a really really absolute path must start with X:/, although I won't
push that.)


Right,

						MartinS