Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Proposal : Path

[Eric C. C. <ec...@cm...>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:23:17PM +0100, Michal Moskal wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:33:34PM +0900, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> > Note : this does not actually do any system checking ( the path may not
> > exists or contains invalid characters ). Only special paths . .. and / ( and
> > windows drive letters ) are recognized as special.
> 
> No characters are special in unix paths beside '/'. Special paths are
> only "." and ".." (and maybe "/"). Of course this also depends on
> filesystem, but most native FSes allow anything. 

It's not clear that you can do this independently of the OS interface.
For example, to handle a/b/../c correctly, you need to check whether
"b" is a symbolic link and interpret it accordingly.

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