Re: NSBundle -initWithPath: warning

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-03-31 09:25:17 +0100 David Ayers <d.ayers@inode.at> wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> [snip]
> > No ... but I can easily see what the problem is ... '//Local/Library' 
> > looks 
> > like a windows UNC path where 'Local' is the host and 'Library' is the 
> > share and the actual file is unspecified ... ie it would be a relative 
> > path 
> > on windows.
>
> Are you sure this is the behavior we want?
> The UNC path seems like an absolute path to me, comparable to '/'

No ... I'm not sure ... I'm not a windows user.
I have been treating a UNC path of the form '//host/share' like a 
drive-relative path of the form 'C:' and assuming that it should be 
considered 'relative' because it specifies a dvice but not as particular 
location on the device.  I'm pretty convinced that 'C:' or 'C:file' are 
relative paths and 'C:/' and 'C:/file' are absolute.  However, it may be 
that '//host/share' should be treated as equivalent to '//host/share/' ... 
and both should be treated like '/' on unix.
Do you know exactly how UNC paths behave?  Is //host/share the same thing as 
//host/share/ ?