Re: Willing to debug bug #3542 (23.0.94; File access via UNC path slow again under Windows)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:32:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Davis Herring" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Miles Bader" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > That's not what I meant.  What I meant is the problem that could
> > happen if encoded_dir's value was address@hidden, and there was also a
> > directory called "foo".  Won't we then opendir "foo"?
> 
> Of course.  But is the equivalence between "foo" and "address@hidden"
> fundamentally worse than the (almost: consider symlinks) equivalence
> between "foo" and "foo/"?

Yes, it is (IMO): directory "address@hidden" does not exist, so you should
have got an error.  Instead, you silently open a directory by another
name, as if "address@hidden" existed.