Re: [patch] get_maintainer: handle file names beginning with ./

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 16:44 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:37:56AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:51 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > The problem is that get_maintainer.pl doesn't work if you have a ./
> > > prefix on the filename.  For example, if you type:
> > > 
> > >     ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ./drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c
> > 
> > Someone's been feeding find output to get_maintainer?
> 
> Yep.

So strip the leading './' before using it.

Also, if you're looking for unmaintained files,
I think have a script for that too.

> > Then maybe you'd also have to consider fully qualified
> > file names, tilde expansion, $PWD, and probably a bunch
> > of other things too.
> 
> I don't think you'd "have" to consider those as well, but I won't stand
> in your way if you want to...

Half measures aren't generally good enough.

Using a combination of CWnd abs_fast_path and $lk_path
is probably better.  $lkpath is set to './' by default.