On 2019/08/28 07:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > One problem here is, what to do about border cases like > > $ mkdir a\/\/\/ > > In theory slashes and backslashes should both be treated as dir > separators. Handling a case like this so that all expectations > are satisfied is next to impossible, I guess. > In a shell or as a quoted literal? Under POSIX or under Windows?
In a shell it ends up as: > pathcat a\/\/\/\/ b a/b > pathcat a\/\/ b a/b But as a quoted string, things don't get reduced unless last of first + first of second are same: > pathcat 'a\/\/' 'b' a\/\/b # cuddled > pathcat 'a\/\/' '/b' a\/\/b # slash reduced pathcat 'a\/\/' '\/b' a\/\/\/b # concat pathcat 'a\/\' '\/b' a\/\/\/b # slash added as "\/b is assumed to be at ./\/b Note that while posix may specify that mkdir 'a' and 'a/' should be the same, 'a:' and 'a:\' are not (and would not be POSIX compliant). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
