[Haskell-cafe] Re: File path programme
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
Mon Jan 31 13:39:50 EST 2005
Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:
> http://cryp.to/pathspec/PathSpec.hs
> There also is a function which changes a path specification
> into its canonic form, meaning that all redundant segments
> are stripped.
It's incorrect: canon (read "x/y/.." :: RelPath Posix) gives "x",
yet on Unix they aren't equivalent when y is a non-local symlink
or doesn't exist.
Also, "x/." is not equivalent to "x": rmdir can be used with "x"
but not with "x/.".
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