Message-Id:	<199908311420.OAA79880@out2.ibm.net>
From:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:21:04 -0400
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Bug in collect2.c
References:	<199908310425 DOT EAA131526 AT out2 DOT ibm DOT net>
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.990831095603.9517T-100000@is>
X-mailer:	Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a)
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

> What case, exactly, do you want to fix?
> 
> I agree that we could detect the cases of "\/" and assume it's some bug.  
> We certainly cannot remove extra backslashes in the case of "\\" (it 
> might be a real UNC).  And the case of "//" is already handled.
> 
> What about "\\/" or "/\/\"?
> 

I think first set of slashes and backslashes should be collapsed following a drive 
letter and colon: c:/\ld.exe c:\/ld.exe c:/\/\ld.exe. \\unc\dir\file is certainly a 
valid UNC, but should c:\\unc\dir\file be considered valid too? 
--- 
Mark Elbrecht, snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com
http://snowball.frogspace.net/

- Raw text -