Comment #3 on issue 6283 by
[hidden email]: Root paths not properly
recognized under windows
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=6283I would expect FileSystem disk referenceTo: '/'
to return to root directory of the current working directory.
Just to confirm, on windows I would not expect '/' to never be a relative
reference. It should always be the root directory of whatever the drive is
of the current working directory. The conventions of the CMD prompt should
be the default behaviour (but I haven't considered where this might clash
with Posix systems)
Just to review the obvious, 'multiple root directories'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_directoryand considering this sample...
(1) C:\Users\Ben> cd \
(2) C:\> f:
(3) F:\> c:
(4) C:\> cd f:\BACKUP
(5) C:\> f:
(6) F:\BACKUP>
Note how step 4 does not change the current working directory but the
working of the other drive. Each drive keeps track of its own working
directory.
Note also in step 5 how F: is not a root directory, but a command to change
to a different drive which maintained its own working directory. Since
Posix machines don't have multiple roots, perhaps this behaviour won't
conflict.
Perhaps also drive letters might be treated similar to UNC share part of a
UNX path (not sure if FileSystem already handles these?)
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