[Insight-developers] no category in kitware mantis for KWSYS?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Nov 23 15:41:14 EST 2010


On 11/23/2010 10:53 AM, kent williams wrote:
> I was looking through SystemTools.cxx and think I may have found a bug in
> SystemTools::FileIsFullPath affecting Windows specifically.  But when I look
> in Mantis there's no KWSys category.
[snip]
> This doesn't handle a 4th possibility -- if you give a drive letter NOT
> followed by a backslash (or a forward slash, actually) what you've specified
> is a relative path on the specified drive.
> 
> Windows actually tracks a current working directory per logical drive. And
> by 'logical drive' I mean anything that Windows shows as having a drive
> letter, which covers several possibilities.

A drive-letter-relative path is NOT a full path.  It depends on state not
specified in the string itself.

-Brad


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