Add "bool FilePath::ReferencesParent()" which adds a clean & simple way for...

base/file_path.h

 // Copyright (c) 2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // FilePath is a container for pathnames stored in a platform's native string
 // type, providing containers for manipulation in according with the
 // platform's conventions for pathnames.  It supports the following path
 // types:
 //
 //                   POSIX            Windows
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   // Returns true if this FilePath contains an absolute path.  On Windows, an
   // absolute path begins with either a drive letter specification followed by
   // a separator character, or with two separator characters.  On POSIX
   // platforms, an absolute path begins with a separator character.
   bool IsAbsolute() const;
 
   // Returns a copy of this FilePath that does not end with a trailing
   // separator.
   FilePath StripTrailingSeparators() const;
 
+  // Returns true if this FilePath contains any attempt to reference a parent
+  // directory (i.e. has a path component that is ".."
+  bool ReferencesParent() const;
+
   // Older Chromium code assumes that paths are always wstrings.
   // This function converts a wstring to a FilePath, and is useful to smooth
   // porting that old code to the FilePath API.
   // It has "Hack" in its name so people feel bad about using it.
   // TODO(port): remove these functions.
   static FilePath FromWStringHack(const std::wstring& wstring);
 
   // Older Chromium code assumes that paths are always wstrings.
   // This function produces a wstring from a FilePath, and is useful to smooth
   // porting that old code to the FilePath API.
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 namespace stdext {
 
 inline size_t hash_value(const FilePath& f) {
   return hash_value(f.value());
 }
 
 }  // namespace stdext
 #endif  // COMPILER
 
 #endif  // BASE_FILE_PATH_H_