Re: [Boost-build] bjam patch for supporting the '\' Windows root path.

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-07 03:31:38

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 13:19:28 Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>    Hi Volodya.
> 
> >>>>   I'm attaching a patch to fix this so please review and grok it for me 
> >>>> to apply or apply it directly.
> >>> It looks like that change introduces a buffer under-run when one passes 
> >>> in an empty string.
> >>    Yup, you're right. Sorry. Here's a corrected patch.
> >>
> >>    I tried playing around with the code to get it more succinct but 
> >> haven't found a way to avoid that explicitly empty/non-empty if. :-)
> > 
> > This patch does not appear to be in yet. Should it be? Rene, any opinion?
> 
>    I've had this patch in my sandbox and actively have been actively 
> using it on at least two developer machines since I posted it to the 
> mailing list an have not had a single problem with it since.

It appears that Rene is more busy than I these days, so I've looked at the
patch :-)

It is OK to commit, thanks you!

- Volodya