Re: Nitpicking PATCH - path v/s directory separator in stdio.h

Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd-/[email protected]> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:41:24 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.patches
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> 
> --- stdio.h.orig        Mon Sep 16 10:50:14 2002
> +++ stdio.h     Mon Sep 16 10:50:40 2002
> @@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
>    *
>    * NOTE: The file manipulation functions provided by Microsoft seem to
> - * work with either slash (/) or backslash (\) as the path separator.
> + * work with either slash (/) or backslash (\) as the directory separator.
>    *
>    * This file is part of the Mingw32 package.
> 

A path can contain a file part and directory can't.  The [back]slash
also delimits (separates) the file part as well as the directory parts,
therefore it is a path separator.

Earnie.


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