closing #3773:

* in BEntry::SetTo and BFile::SetTo, we now support entry-refs with
  absolute names, too, just like R5 does


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@30183 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

src/kits/storage/Entry.cpp

@@ -393,6 +393,10 @@ BEntry::SetTo(const entry_ref *ref, bool traverse)
 	if (ref == NULL)
 		return (fCStatus = B_BAD_VALUE);
 
+	// if ref-name is absolute, let the path-only SetTo() do the job
+	if (BPrivate::Storage::is_absolute_path(ref->name))
+		return SetTo(ref->name, traverse);
+
 	// open the directory and let set() do the rest
 	int dirFD = _kern_open_dir_entry_ref(ref->device, ref->directory, NULL);
 	if (dirFD < 0)

src/kits/storage/File.cpp

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <File.h>
 #include <fs_interface.h>
 #include <NodeMonitor.h>
+#include "storage_support.h"
 
 #include <syscalls.h>
 
@@ -158,6 +159,10 @@ BFile::SetTo(const entry_ref *ref, uint32 openMode)
 	if (!ref)
 		return (fCStatus = B_BAD_VALUE);
 
+	// if ref->name is absolute, let the path-only SetTo() do the job
+	if (BPrivate::Storage::is_absolute_path(ref->name))
+		return SetTo(ref->name, openMode);
+
 	openMode |= O_CLOEXEC;
 
 	int fd = _kern_open_entry_ref(ref->device, ref->directory, ref->name,