From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:35:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fully resolve symlinks when creating lockfiles
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707261934080.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <11854712542350-git-send-email-bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Bradford C. Smith wrote:

> Make the code for resolving symlinks in lockfile.c more robust as
> follows:
> 
> 1. Handle relative symlinks
> 2. recursively resolve symlink chains up to OS limit

FWIW I like what it does, but how.  What is so wrong with just relying on 
is_absolute_path() and make_absolute_path()?  The code would be much 
shorter then, and we need those functions anyway, methinks.

Ciao,
Dscho