DynamoRIO/drmemory

-src_whitelist command argument does not work with `..`

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#2,249 opened on Feb 7, 2020

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drmemory -src_whitelist "C:\Repo\**" myApp.exe behaves as expected, finding errors drmemory -src_whitelist "C:\Repo\subdir\..\**" myApp.exe finds no errors

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Examine the code that processes the src whitelist argument to see how it handles relative paths with '..' and identify where normalization fails.
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