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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-09-28 16:14:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-09-28 16:14:18 (GMT) |
| commit | bbf7a407e8756195cb3ec522ed631ee685d70bd5 (patch) | |
| tree | 50ac2b83c5abab550a8c1f0fcba925f8e6ac9740 | |
| parent | b387860c70a783599a4111180b0812fb72723608 (diff) | |
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Added note about non-support of UNC paths on Windows.
This fixes SF bug #465447.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libos.tex | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 1c3a584..85355a5 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -634,7 +634,8 @@ Recursive directory creation function. Like \function{mkdir()}, but makes all intermediate-level directories needed to contain the leaf directory. Throws an \exception{error} exception if the leaf directory already exists or cannot be created. The default \var{mode} -is \code{0777} (octal). +is \code{0777} (octal). This function does not properly handle UNC +paths (only relevant on Windows systems). \versionadded{1.5.2} \end{funcdesc} diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex index 9cd1a58..bc26ddd 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ This module implements some useful functions on pathnames. \index{path!operations} +\strong{Warning:} On Windows, many of these functions do not properly +support UNC pathnames. \function{splitunc()} and \function{ismount()} +do handle them correctly. + \begin{funcdesc}{abspath}{path} Return a normalized absolutized version of the pathname \var{path}. |