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.
