Re: is_absolute_path incorrect on Windows

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Giles Lean <giles.lean@pobox.com>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-06-01T22:38:05Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Hm.  Neither of these obviously exclude the case of an absolute path
> >> that happens to lead to cwd.  I'm not sure how important that is,
> >> but still ...
> 
> > We currently do that with path_is_prefix_of_path().  Maybe that needs to
> > be called as well.
> 
> I think you misunderstood my point: in the places where we're insisting
> on a relative path, I don't think we *want* an absolute path to be
> accepted.  What I was trying to say is that these proposed function
> names don't obviously mean "a relative path that does not try to
> break out of cwd".

Oh, OK.  I know Magnus has a patch that he was working on and will send
it out soon.

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