Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/19/03:04:55
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Ilya P. Ryzhenkov wrote:
> But DOS requester supprot true names, so if you ask for a true name of a
> file H:\test.exe you'll get
> \\test\sys\test.exe
>
> No problem yet. But if you'll try to use `cd \\test\sys\..' WOW! it'll
> crash the mapping and will give you volume list for the dir ...
> I'll rephrase : using true names in file operations on the top of Novell
> DOS requester ignore drive mappings and may even remap them.
AFAIK, the only function in the DJGPP library which uses "true names" is
`stat', and it knows how to do that in a way that doesn't conflict with
Novell. So I don't think true names are the reason, unless JPTUI calls
`_truename' or its equivalent directly (which I don't see why it should
need to).
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