On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:49:49PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:39:02AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> > Unix is being nice to you in stripping off the final slash.  Would it be
> > possible to wrap the stat call in something that checks for and removes
> > a trailing slash?
> 
> I worked around it by adding a "." to the end of the path in my
> "is_dir" function if it's Windows and if it ends with a "\\" already,
> but that still doesn't stop it from being a bug.

But, it would be just as valid to argue that Unix has a bug in that it
doesn't detect an incorrectly formed pathname.

Dave Brown

-------------------
To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/
Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners