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

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #58547 (project octave):

I can be more precise, "foo/bar" is neither rooted relative nor absolute. 
Octave is currently checking for rooted relative paths for which the fragment
returns false.

I suppose the question is why Octave has this test at all:


  if (! (do_absolute_pathname (s) || do_rooted_relative_pathname (s)))
    return s;


If you comment this out, does do_base_pathname now do what you expect?

If you comment this out, does 'make check' pass?

I tried using 'hg blame' to figure out when this bit of code was added, but it
didn't particularly help.  It's been there since at least 2012, but possibly
goes even further back.


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