[PATCH] Check for existence of the path before processing '..'

Tue Jun 11 17:30:00 GMT 2013

On Jun 11 11:17, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:04:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jun 11 10:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> You introduce a check_parent flag which is set every time a non-slash
> >> character is found. That doesn't seem right. It seems like it should
> >> be set whenever you see a slash.
> >
> >Indeed. I moved setting check_parent before the while expression in
> >the else branch instead and it still works.
>> I'll bet you wouldn't see much of a hit if you just got rid of the
> check_parent flag entirely.

Actually, to my own surprise, it does. I removed the flag and the code
takes 3 seconds longer on average to build coreutils: 136.2 vs. 133.4
vs. 132.3.
Corinna
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