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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:44:03 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] get_maintainer: handle file names beginning with ./
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On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:37:56AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:51 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The problem is that get_maintainer.pl doesn't work if you have a ./
> > prefix on the filename.  For example, if you type:
> > 
> >     ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ./drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c
> 
> Someone's been feeding find output to get_maintainer?

Yep.

> 
> Then maybe you'd also have to consider fully qualified
> file names, tilde expansion, $PWD, and probably a bunch
> of other things too.

I don't think you'd "have" to consider those as well, but I won't stand
in your way if you want to...

regards,
dan carpenter