From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-05-22T22:55:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Patches-1939 ] Pathname, totally revamped

Hi,

At Sun, 22 May 2005 13:20:21 +0900,
Daniel Berger wrote in [ruby-core:05068]:
> > > require "Win32API" if File::ALT_SEPARATOR
> > 
> > File::ALT_SEPARATOR is not Windows specific.
> 
> On what other platform is it not nil?

Other DOSISH platforms, djgpp, OS/2 and human68k.

> > >       # Convert forward slashes to backslashes on
> > Win32
> > >       path.tr!("/",@sep) if File::ALT_SEPARATOR
> > 
> > This changes the argument.
> 
> Yes, I know.  That's intentional.

Really?

> > And, I doubt about necessity of Win32API.
> 
> I don't.  UNC pathname issues are too difficult to
> deal with in a generic manner without getting into
> lots of conditionals.

In file.c, whether a given path is UNC or not is judged by if
it starts with successive 2 directory separators.  Is it
insufficient?

-- 
Nobu Nakada