Re: _canonical_path not working on *BSD

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Why do we even need the zstat if we're doing $(cd ...; pwd) ?

If the last segment is a directory we don't.  The function doesn't
actually say it needs to be, however.  I can move the -d test to
optimise this.

> I'm beginning to think this whole exercise is a bad idea anyway.  I have
> visions of sysadmins attempting to umount a misbehaving NFS server or a
> failing disk and ending up with their session frozen as zsh attempts to
> access the bad filesystem behind the scenes.

I think that's a generic problem with completing mount points, but it
would be perfectly reasonable to put the behaviour in a style.

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