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Re: group name problem


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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