[cifs-protocol] Re: [linux-cifs-client] POSIX pathnames and the '\' character.

[simo]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 12:36 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:40:12PM +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
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> > Jeremy Allison schrieb:
> > > which is incorrect. Now that's easy to fix, but
> > > the problem is when the client is in unix extensions
> > > posix pathname mode and accesses a DFS share which
> > > needs to reply with a redirect of :
> > > 
> > > "\server\share\home/userluser/eLItE\haXor/"
> > 
> > why not /sever/share/home/userluser/eLItE\haXor/ ?
> 
> I thought of this, hmmmm. I originally thought
> this would be difficult to tell from an ordinary
> pathname, but you always get the DFS flag bit
> set on that name....
> 
> This would work for the incoming pathname, but
> outgoing redirect paths still must be canonicalized
> to \server\share\path as we don't have any info
> about the server we're redirecting to.

But what would do a server that do not have unix extensions when
presented a path with mixed slashes like: \server\share/user/blah/ ?

Will a windows server understand it ?

Simo.

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