Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The #ifdef I'm addressing above is one that we had to introduce because in > the old implementation of prefix_path() on Windows we had to rewrite the > path more often than on *nix due to '\\' => '/' conversion. In your new > implementation this rewriting now always takes place, but on *nix it more > often turns out to be an identity operation. I am not sure what you mean by "\\" => '/', but you are right. We should be able to optimize the common case of prefix=none and no special path components found in path, which should be an identity function. >> Especially I have no idea how would that drive lettter stuff >> would/should work. When you are in C:\Documents\Panda\, how >> would you express D:\Movie\Porn\My Favorite.mpg as a relative >> path? > > You can't. But when would this be necessary? I don't know. That's why I asked. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
