Re: Bug in builtin function abspath

[Boris Kolpackov]

Andreas,

Andreas Buening <address@hidden> writes:

> The builtin function abspath does not consider drive letters.
> Therefore, I think it will break not only on OS/2 but also on DOS
> or Win* systems. And I suspect it won't work on VMS, too.

I think you are correct. I implemented abspath and my implementation
only supports POSIX (aka UNIX) paths.

> I've written a patch to handle drive letters. If anybody has a better
> solution, please let me know.

I am of a strong opinion that such patches should be kept outside of
the main tree. However I know that Paul disagrees with this position.
So I guess it would be his call.


hth,
-boris