From: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:47:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a comment about usage of fileutil.to_windows_long_path.
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Add a comment about usage of fileutil.to_windows_long_path.

Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
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diff --git a/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py b/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
index 582139e1..9a9eb54f 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py
@@ -358,6 +358,9 @@ def to_windows_long_path(path):
     # replace it with '\' here.
     path = path.replace(u"/", u"\\")
 
+    # Note that other normalizations such as removing '.' and '..' should
+    # be done outside this function.
+
     if path.startswith(u"\\\\?\\") or path.startswith(u"\\\\.\\"):
         return path
     elif path.startswith(u"\\\\"):