Re: [binc] NOOP fails (from time to time)

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:28:37PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> path is initialized in session-initialize-bincimapd.cc by this code:
> 
>   string path = session.globalconfig["Mailbox"]["path"];
>   if (session.args.getUnqualifiedArgs().size() > 0)
>     path = session.args.getUnqualifiedArgs()[0];
>   if (path == "") path = ".";
>   else if (chdir(path.c_str()) != 0) {
>     mkdir(path.c_str(), 0777);
>     if (chdir(path.c_str()) != 0) {
>       logger << "when entering depot " + toImapString(path) + ": "
>              << strerror(errno) << endl;
>       return false;
>     }
>   }

..looking closer at this code the logic seems a bit sketchy, or am I
just confused?

path is set
if path is blank, set to "."
otherwise chdir() to path

..and later in the session path is used as a prefix too, which
confuses me.. Will that really work for any case when path!="." ?


//Peter