[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57664] dir() function folder element is empty for Windows UNC network-based files

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #57664 (project octave):

                  Status:         Patch Submitted => None                   

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Follow-up Comment #12:

I couldn't find a place in Windows where starting UNC shares with "//" is
valid syntax. So I ended up pushing Mike's patch here:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/673fb7081ebe

If we want to allow forward slashes. This can still be done in a later patch.


There might be another one or two somewhat independent issues with dir and UNC
paths:
* Calling "dir" directly on a shared folder fails:

>> dir('\\SERVER\share')
warning: dir: nonexistent directory '\\SERVER\share'
warning: called from
    dir at line 193 column 5


* Paths starting with "\\" are literal on Windows. E.g., it would be possible
to list the content of a folder with name "..". That leads to lstat failing:

>> dir('\\SERVER\share\test')
warning: dir: 'lstat (\\SERVER\share\test\..)' failed: No such file or
directory
warning: called from
    dir at line 132 column 9

.                 Octave (GUI).lnk  test.txt          test_octave.bat  
test_unc.m

  Maybe, we could skip lstat on ".."?


New bug report(s)?

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