# Some shared sub routines
#
# Author: Patrick Canterino <patrick@patshaping.de>
-# Last modified: 2005-04-22
+# Last modified: 2005-05-07
#
use strict;
multi_string
upper_path);
-use Carp qw(croak);
-
# check_path()
#
# Check if a virtual path is above a virtual root directory
$first = abs_path($first);
my $last = file_name($path);
- $last = '' if($last eq '.');
- if($last eq '..' || ($^O eq 'MSWin32' && $last =~ m!^\.\.\.+$!))
+ if(-d $first.'/'.$last && not -l $first.'/'.$last)
{
$first = abs_path($first.'/'.$last);
$last = '';