[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58547] gzip()/bzip2() do not handle relative paths in first argument correctly

[Carnë Draug]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #58547 (project octave):

Does anyone understand why  sys::env::base_pathname even calls
do_rooted_relative_pathname ? It's documentation states:


    // [...] If STRING is not a full pathname,
    // simply return it.


But I don't know what is a full pathname. Why is 'foo/bar' not a full pathname
and './foo/bar' is a full pathname? I would guess that the issue is there
since this behaviour is not common in basename implementations. How many other
functions are calling base_pathname and expect 'foo/bar' to return 'foo/bar'
instead of 'bar'?

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