Re: [patch] canonicalize_file_name

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:34:55AM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> In libparted/device.c, we were using a home brewed hack to canonicalize
> a file name (i.e. expand symbolic links, remove superfuous path
> components, etc.).  This is unnecessary as libc already has the
> functionality to do this for us.

Oops, I couldn't find one in libc.

> -static PedDevice*    devices = NULL;
> +static PedDevice*    devices;

I'm not applying that, until I get a legal guarantee (*grin*) that
this is safe.  Why don't the gcc ppl just put this in zero memory,
if they know it's zero?  This is a gcc bug, as far as I'm concerned.

Apart from that, all looks good.

Thanks!
Andrew