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Re: group name problem
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:16:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: group name problem
- References: <200410011856.i91IuuNn003069@manawatu-mail-centre.mit.edu> <415DB23B.8C373D1B@ieee.org> <20041001194407.GA13042@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Oct 1 15:44, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:38:35PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >This is about the subject thread on the cygwin list.
> >
> >Should we get rid of PATH_ISDISK?
> >It seems to only be used in the passwd/group loading code.
> >
> >W:/src/winsup/cygwin: fgrep isdisk *.cc
> >path.cc: set_isdisk ();
> >uinfo.cc: if (pc.error || !pc.exists () || !pc.isdisk () || pc.isdir ())
>
> I don't remember the rationale for the test in pwdgroup::load. I don't
> see how it could be anything but a disk by the point at which it is
> doing the test.
Looks like a leftover, doesn't it?
Corinna
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