Re: [PATCH] svnadmin hotcopy, hot-backup.py race conditions fix

Vladimir Berezniker wrote:

>Is there any difference between sub_path = "" and sub_path = &""? Since
>sub_path is a pointer are the two statements not equivalent?
>
>
Pointers don't all have the same type. "" is a char[] and gets converted
to char*, &"" is a char**. These are antirely different types. &"" is
also nonsense semantically, because "" is a literal and you can't take
the address of a literal in C -- I have no idea why this compiled at all.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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