Re: Any downside to root-relative paths?

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:58:16 +0200 from André Gillibert
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Stan Brown wrote:

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:20:16 +0200 from André Gillibert
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Lars Eighner wrote:

In Windows, of course, "/" is nonsense, but even in Unix-like systems.

In Windows, /some/path is a path relative to the current drive root.
e.g. If the current directory is E:/some/where/, then /else/where/ is
refering to E:/else/where/.

I don't think so. I just cobbled up this file:


I was talking about file paths, not URI references.
/ in CreateProcess, CreateFile, or any other Win32 function, will refer to
the root drive of the current directory.

Sorry -- I thought we were discussing HTML.

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Stan Brown wrote:

I was talking about file paths, not URI references.
/ in CreateProcess, CreateFile, or any other Win32 function, will refer
to
the root drive of the current directory.

Sorry -- I thought we were discussing HTML.

I'm sorry too. I should have understood from the context, what you were
refering to.

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