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RE: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories


 Hello!

> >>  Heh...
> >>  So, complete emulation would cost a major performance drop, right ?
> >>  Well... Can there be any setting which enables these checks ? At
> least we have one use case...
> >
> >Not without lots of new code.
> 
> So, maybe next Thursday?

 By the way, you said it would be slow... I have an idea how to implement a
compromise solution which would not be horribly slow.
 What if we check existence of intermediate paths not every time but only
when we meet thing like '..' ?
 I'll explain... For example, if we would access /foo/bar/baz, testing for
/foo and /foo/bar existence would supposedly be a waste of time, because we
would get "Object not found" on the final path too. But, when processing
thing like /foo/bar/../baz, we really need to check for intermediate dirs.
But, still not every time. In this example we actually need to test only for
/foo/bar's existence. I. e. a path to which we apply '..', before stripping
the last component.
 Does it make sense ?

 Kind regards.


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