Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Ensure --symfs ends with '/'

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 08:38:02AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hi Arnaldo,
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:26:21 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:25:52PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> >> Are you still against my approach - adding '/' at the end of the symfs
> >> string itself?  It seems that mine is simpler and shorter.

> > Yes, I am.

> > We are not just concatenating two strings, we are joining two path
> > components.

> > I think it is more clear and elegant to do it as python os.path.join()
> > does.

> Then I think you also need to care about trailing and leading '/' in the
> components so that, say, joining '/home/' and '/namhyung/' can result in
> '/home/namhyung/' not '/home///namhyung/'.

Well, "/home/namhyung/" is the same as "/home///namhyung/" for POSIX:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_266

So, when we can easily avoid it, no use to have a sequence of slashes,
but otherwise it is harmless.
 
> Btw, it seems like python's os.path.join() just use latter if it's an
> absolute path.
> 
>   $ python
>   Python 2.7.3 (default, Jul 24 2012, 10:05:38) 
>   [GCC 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5)] on linux2
>   Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>   >>> import os.path
>   >>> os.path.join('/home/', '/namhyung/')
>   '/namhyung/'

Interesting, wonder what is the rationale for that or if this is a bug.

- Arnaldo