Re: [PATCH] use S_ISDIR() in link_path_walk() to decide whether the last path component is a directory

[viro]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:34:15PM -0500, David Dabbs wrote:
> I'm working on something similar, but with alternate pathname resolution
> when the path begins with exactly two slashes. Only pseudocode here because
> I do not have access to my box:
> 
>     if (*name == '/') {
>        if (*(name+1)=='/' && *(name+2)==':') {
>           name+=3;

	Pathname resolution is a hell of a fundamental thing and kludges
like that are too ugly to be acceptable.  If you can't make that clean
and have to resort to stuffing "special cases" (read: barfbag of ioctl
magnitude) into the areas that might be unspecified by POSIX, don't do it
at all.

	I don't like the amount of handwaving from Hans, but *that* is far
worse.  Vetoed.
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