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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: ID cross-ref programs fix
Message-ID: <99@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 06:55:29 EST
Article-I.D.: piring.99
Posted: Wed Oct 28 06:55:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 02:56:22 EST
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Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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The patch posted to fix some problem with files with leading backslash
(backslash?!?  surely you mean slash!?!) breaks the mechanism to find
the ID file is a directory higher up in the hierarchy -- spanPath ends
up appending an infinite series of "../" to a buffer.

I can't offer a fix -- I must say I don't understand exactly what the
code is doing there, and maybe neither is the author, or the problem
which the patch was supposed to fix wouldn't have occurred.  Undoing the
patch was enough for me.
--
Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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