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

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> > > 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.

It's true.
But when you're doing a/b/../c , do you actually really now what you're
doing ? :)
Theses kind of things should be marked as "features", not "bug".

Nicolas Cannasse