GNU bug report logs - #27871
26.0.50; Bad handling of unmounted directory

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Reported by: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:08:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 27871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: bug#27871: 26.0.50; Bad handling of unmounted directory
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 14:38:38 +0300

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:33:13 +0000
> Cc: 27871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  > What if there's a directory called literally "(unreachable)SOMETHING"?
> 
>  An absolute file name cannot start with "(unreachable)".
> 
> Yes, and getcwd and friends only return absolute filenames, and we only use $PWD if it's absolute, so
> anything except '/' or a drive letter can't be a prefix in the success case. I'll add a comment to that effect. 

Then why not just check that the first character is something other
than '/'?
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