GNU bug report logs - #13553
24.3.50; incorrect usage of IS_DIRECTORY_SEP

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Reported by: Shigeru Fukaya <shigeru.fukaya <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, shigeru.fukaya <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#13553: 24.3.50; incorrect usage of IS_DIRECTORY_SEP
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:40:08 -0500

> You call file-attributes, which encodes the file name and passes it to
> 'lstat'.  The implementation of 'lstat' in w32.c then looks at the
> last byte of the encoded file name to see if there's a slash or
> backslash there.  Boom!

I see.   So, does that meant that w32.c can't faithfully implement lstat
without doing the moral equivalent of re-decoding its argument?


        Stefan
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