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

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> writes:

>> That's not what I meant.  What I meant is the problem that could
>> happen if encoded_dir's value was foo^@bar, and there was also a
>> directory called "foo".  Won't we then opendir "foo"?
>
> Of course.  But is the equivalence between "foo" and "foo^@bar"
> fundamentally worse than the (almost: consider symlinks) equivalence
> between "foo" and "foo/"?  Maybe it just doesn't matter much.
>
>> And what if opendir was replaced by unlink?
>
> Nothing.  You can't unlink directories.  ;)

As root under Solaris, you can.  This has been a nasty cause of surprise
for decades.  I can't vouch that it has not changed in _very_ recent
years, but there certainly will systems be around where this is the
case.

-- 
David Kastrup