From: nobu@... Date: 2014-03-11T01:02:24+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:61406] [ruby-trunk - Bug #9618] Pathname#cleanpath creates mixed path separators Issue #9618 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Agree. ~~~diff diff --git a/ext/pathname/pathname.c b/ext/pathname/pathname.c index 3db97fc..a68ecd2 100644 --- a/ext/pathname/pathname.c +++ b/ext/pathname/pathname.c @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ get_strpath(VALUE obj) static void set_strpath(VALUE obj, VALUE val) { + VALUE sep[2]; + sep[0] = rb_const_get(rb_cFile, rb_intern("ALT_SEPARATOR")); + if (!NIL_P(sep[0])) { + sep[1] = rb_const_get(rb_cFile, rb_intern("SEPARATOR")); + rb_funcallv(val, rb_intern("tr!"), 2, sep); + } rb_ivar_set(obj, id_at_path, val); } ~~~ ---------------------------------------- Bug #9618: Pathname#cleanpath creates mixed path separators https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9618#change-45715 * Author: Daniel Rikowski * Status: Open * Priority: Low * Assignee: cruby-windows * Category: platform/windows * Target version: * ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p451 (2014-02-24) [i386-mingw32] * Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- When using `Pathname#cleanpath` with a Windows path the resulting path contains a mixture of slashes and backslashes. ~~~ require 'pathname' path = Pathname.new('c:\projects\ruby\bug\test.rb') path.to_s # => "c:\\projects\\ruby\\bug\\test.rb" path.cleanpath.to_s # => "c:\\projects/ruby/bug/test.rb" ~~~ I'd expect `cleanpath` to use the same path separator for all path segments. The problem doesn't happen on non-Windows platforms because there backslashes are not detected as path separators. The problem is that the first path segment is added verbatim and only subsequent segments are joined by `File::join`. Personally I'd prefer it to use `File::SEPARATOR` **only**, regardless of any original separator(s). That way it would blend with the current 'normalizing' behaviour of `cleanpath`, which then could be also used to normalize any existing separator weirdness and - for example - make a path compatible with `Dir.glob` (which can't use backslashes) -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/