[dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca: Incorrect file name simplication]

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:16:38PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> 
> > I'd like some more context.  How do we get a silly path like that in
> > the first place?
> 
> Surely that's not the point; what matters is that they do occur and we
> should get these cases right.
> 
> How about _cpp_simplify_pathname doing a lstat () on the path to the left
> when about to simplify a ".." segment and not bothering unless S_ISDIR?
> Is lstat portable enough?  We could do it iff !VMS && !MSDOS_BLAH.

That seems reasonable enough.  Not everyone has lstat, but I believe
that all systems which lack it, don't have symlinks at all, so the
check is unnecessary.

zw