[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62847] addpath fails to process network pathnames

[Philip Nienhuis]

URL:
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                 Summary: addpath fails to process network pathnames 
                 Project: GNU Octave
               Submitter: philipnienhuis
               Submitted: Mon 01 Aug 2022 12:14:15 PM CEST
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Regression
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Philip Nienhuis
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: dev
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows


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Date: Mon 01 Aug 2022 12:14:15 PM CEST By: Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
At my work, addpath cannot process pathnames with drive letters that behind
the scenes map onto some UNC path.
Unfortunately due to strict security I cannot literally mention those path
names but I can come up with some lookalikes.

1. What doesn't work is a mapped drive letter, where the path to the user
looks like e.g., 'Q:\full\path\to\subdir\on\network' and 'Q:\' points to some
server like '\\SP500.company.local'.

2. What does work is

addpath ('\full\path\onto\some\local\disk')


3. What also works is 

addpath ( ['\\servername.local_NTFS_joint_name' <rest of path]] )



addpath still works fine on Octave-7.2.0 (pfew) but not on dev Octave.








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