Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #1376, comment 1


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02/16/21 09:09:59 (3 years ago)
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Gert Döring
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  • Ticket #1376, comment 1

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    11I wonder how these paths came into existance in the first place...
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    3 But anyway. @selva: is there something like a "realpath(3)" for windows, which would take a path name and canonicalize it - de-duplicate "\\", canonicalize "path\..\" elements, chop off trailing "\", so comparison is more likely to recognize duplicates?
     3But anyway. @selva: is there something like a "realpath(3)" for windows, which would take a path name and canonicalize it - de-duplicate double backslashes, canonicalize "path/../" elements, chop off trailing "/", so comparison is more likely to recognize duplicates?
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     5(Note: path examples written with "/" as trac hates backslashes)