[darcs-users] darcs patch: Make FileName.drop_dotdot work with abso... (and 3 more)

[Simon Marlow]

Jason Dagit wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Simon Marlow 
> <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com <mailto:simonmarhaskell at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     BTW, I haven't followed the whole thread, but I hope you're taking into
>     account the fact that "foo/../bar" /= "bar" on POSIX systems, due to
>     symlinks.
> 
> 
> I'm not following your example, but if what you say is true due to 
> symlinks on POSIX, then the same can likely be said about Vista.  I seem 
> to recall hearing that Vista has symlinks now.

Quite possibly, yes.  The problem arises when foo is a symlink to 
another directory: suppose foo is a symlink to x/y, then

   foo/../bar == x/bar

i.e. not bar.  But maybe this isn't an issue for you inside a darcs repo?

Cheers,
	Simon