From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T02:11:28+09:00
Subject: Re: File.split edge cases

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: File.split edge cases"
>     on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:22:06 +0900, Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> writes:
> 
> |> See [ruby-talk:78960].
> |
> | From what I can gather from my research, the current behavior is not 
> |POSIX compliant then.  I had difficulty finding documentation regarding 
> |POSIX, paths, split and root directories, but what I did find leads me 
> |to believe that in the case of root directories, the root directory 
> |should be returned as the first element, and the second element should 
> |be empty.
> 
> Then show me your reasoning.  I wish you are correct.

I would argue that this should always be true:

path == File.split(File.join(path))

Regards,

Dan