Re: LYNX-DEV /foo/.. ?

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Wayne Buttles wrote:

> Can someone explain the /foo/.. hack for me in htftp.c, htfile.c and
> html.c?

Here's my understanding (could be flawed):

the following FTP command:
cd /
may not be equivalent to
cd /
cd foo
cd ..
(or cd /foo/..)

because of symbolic links. We don't have this problem with HTTP, really,
but we do with Unix filesystems, which is why I'm guessing it's in htfile
too.

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