[PATCH] Cygwin: make path_conv::isdevice() return false on socket files
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Jul 21 01:46:00 GMT 2019
On 7/20/2019 6:53 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/19/2019 4:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> I see what you're doing here, but it's totally non-obvious from the
>> commit message why this fixes the problem and doesn't introduce weird
>> side-effects.
>
> Thanks. I was pretty careless with this patch. There's a new patch series on
> the way that (I hope) does it right.
>
>> An editorial note: While looking into your patch it occured to me that
>> it would be about time to go over all the is***device() methods and
>> clean up the mess. E.g., is_fs_device() is used by is_lnk_special()
>> only, is_auto_device() doesn't have much meaning,
>
> I've removed is_fs_device() and is_auto_device()
>
>> some funcs have
>> underscores, some don't.
>
> The convention seems to be that is<something> uses underscores if and only if
> "something" is a single word.
^
not
> The only exception I saw is isctty_capable. I
> didn't bother changing this, but I could if you want me to.
>
> Ken
>
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