[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44682] Fullfile does not support network share addresses on windows platofrm

[Philip Nienhuis]

Update of bug #44682 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
        Operating System:       Microsoft Windows => Any                    

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Follow-up Comment #5:

I'd swear I've seen or maybe even fixed a similar bug a while ago.....
Yes: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/c304687571c8

OK I'll have a look later on, if nobody beats me to it.

This one is different as it also fails on *nix; it looks nastier as there's no
reliable way to distinguish an erroneous path ('\\wrong\path\name') from a
valid network path ('\\server\d\rive\path'). fullfile.m simply strips multiple
leading fileseps away.
Maybe just assuming that two consecutive fileseps always constitute a network
path would do the trick? (with a check on Windows that there's no
<driveletter><colon> sequence> ?)

In addition fullfile.m doesn't know about e.g.,

file:///rootdir/path 
ftp://server/rootdir/path
www://server/rootdir/path
http://server/rootdir/path

...and other path forms. But that's a separate issue.

OS -> Any; Status -> confirmed


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