Re: NSBundle -initWithPath: warning

[Alex Perez]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 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.
This is completely incorrect behavior. Under Windows, UNC paths are ONLY 
in the form of \\server\ShareName and NEVER //server/ShareName. UNC 
paths *are* absolute paths, and need to be treated as such.

>  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/ ?

No, but \\host\share *is* the same thing as \\host\share\ ;-)

Alex Perez