From: Brian Ford <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-04-22T07:42:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:29710] [Bug #3185] File.expand_path repeats forward slashes at the beginning of the path

Bug #3185: File.expand_path repeats forward slashes at the beginning of the path
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3185

Author: Brian Ford
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin9.8.0]

When File.expand_path is passed a string with multiple consecutive forward slashes, it preserves them in the output. This would appear to be a bug since everywhere else in the path, consecutive separators are collapsed to a single one.

$ ruby1.8.7 -v -e 'p File.expand_path("//////some/dir")'
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin9.8.0]
"//////some/dir"

$ ruby1.8.7 -v -e 'p File.expand_path("//////some/dir", "/Foo")'
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-darwin9.8.0]
"//////some/dir"

The same behavior exists on 1.9.

$ ruby1.9 -v -e 'p File.expand_path("//////some/dir")'
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-03-30 trunk 27097) [i386-darwin9.8.0]
"//////some/dir"
$ ruby1.9 -v -e 'p File.expand_path("//////some/dir", "/Foo")'
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-03-30 trunk 27097) [i386-darwin9.8.0]
"//////some/dir"

Thanks,
Brian


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