From 3180df7778cc032f46d2705a55d881fbc40f896b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:47:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a comment about usage of fileutil.to_windows_long_path.
Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
---
src/allmydata/util/fileutil.py | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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"\\\\"):
--
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