std.path review: update

Lars T. Kyllingstad public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet
Thu Jul 21 02:30:22 PDT 2011


On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:09:52 +0200, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

> On 20.07.2011 20:16, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>> ls //root lists the contents of /root. I'd guess that opening //root
>> with open() would simply open /root. Given that context, they should
>> not be considered to be a server path IMO.
> 
> If that's true for the bare open() without going through possible
> translations in "ls", I'd guess that "//server/share" would look for a
> file/directory "share" in "/server", so std.path should treat it this
> way for posix, too.
> 
> Sorry, if my previous comments in the phobos-list caused confusion, I
> must have confused the mount share with a directory specification.

All right, I'll remove "//path" support again.  That simplifies things 
for POSIX, at least.

-Lars


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