Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > And then you have this case: > > > /usr/local/../bin/../.. > > AFAICS, the patch I just proposed handles this. > > If I recall the code properly, we do not have to make canonicalize_path > remove embedded "." or ".." --- that is, we do not have to simplify > > /usr/local/../bin > > But we do have to get rid of every trailing "." or "..", else there are > failure cases when we replace the trailing component with an ordinary > file name.
But what about "usr/local/../../.."? You loop is similar to what I coded, but then when I realized I had to check for pending trims after I run out of directories, and start appending them to create things like ../.., I gave up. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
