Re: [ ruby-Bugs-8676 ] File.basename fails on Windows root paths

Hi,

At Sun, 13 May 2007 02:07:13 +0900,
Austin Ziegler wrote in [ruby-core:11161]:
> On 5/12/07, Nobuyoshi Nakada <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > At Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:09:08 +0900,
> > Daniel Berger wrote in [ruby-core:10321]:
> > > The File.basename method does not work properly on Windows
> > > root paths. IMO, calling File.basename on a root path should
> > > return itself. However, on MS Windows it appears to be
> > > dropping the volume name and it doesn't handle UNC root paths
> > > correctly:
> > Drive letter is part of base name?  It feels very strange to me.
> 
> It's right, though.
> 
> File.basename("C:/") should return "C:/"
> File.dirname("C:/") should return "C:/"
> File.basename("//server/share/") must return "//server/share/"
> File.dirname("//server/share/") must return "//server/share/"

What's the reason?  Do you consider a drive letter to be a part
of basename?

And if they were work so, then File.join(*File.split("C:/"))
should return "C:/C:/", but it is incorrect on Windows.  Is it
what you want?

> This would be true for any filesystem environment that allows multiple roots.

Really?  Do you know other such environments?

-- 
Nobu Nakada