fixed some path parsing problems

.cvsignore

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ config.cache
 config.guess
 config.log
 config.status
+configure.lineno
 config.sub
 configure
 depcomp

ChangeLog

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Version NEXT
 	pathes with dot after slash are now detected at parse level (side
 	 effect of prev. fix)
 	tests moved from server/ into tests/ directory
+	removed special test case for root directory in path.c -> use more
+	 general alg. instead. This fixed "/" dir.
 	
 Version 2.8.1b17 -- 17 Nov 2003 
 	Allow filenames with spaces inside

server/path.c

@@ -40,18 +40,11 @@ const char *parse_path PROTO3(char *, fullp, unsigned int, len, PPATH *, pp)
   int state;
 
   if(len < 1) return("Path must have non-zero length");
-  if(fullp[len-1]) return("Path not null terminated");
+  if(fullp[len-1]) return("Path must be null terminated");
   
   pp->passwd = NULL; 			/* default, no password */
   pp->d_len = 0;
 
-  if(len == 1 && fullp[0] == 0)	
-  { 
-    /* null path --> root */
-    pp->fullp = pp->f_ptr = pp->d_ptr = ".";
-    pp->f_len = pp->d_len = 1;
-    return(NULLP);
-  }
 
   for(s = pp->fullp = pp->f_ptr = pp->d_ptr = fullp, state = 0; *s; s++) 
   {
@@ -115,5 +108,12 @@ const char *parse_path PROTO3(char *, fullp, unsigned int, len, PPATH *, pp)
     pp->f_len = 1;
   }
   
+  /* turn empty fullp into "." */
+  if(pp->fullp[0] == 0)	
+  { 
+    /* null path --> root */
+    pp->fullp = ".";
+  }
+      
   return(NULLP);
 }

tests/parsecheck.c

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 int dbug=0;
 
 const char *testcases[]={ "", ".","filename","/filename","//filename","//dirname/filename","//dirname//filename","dirname//dir3name//","filename\npasswd",
-    "file/.dir","directory.ext/filename.",
+    "file/.dir","directory.ext/filename.","/",
     NULL};
 
 static void print_path(PPATH *pp)