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C: does not reference the root directory of a volume

I understand that. What I'm trying to get guidance on is how likely it is that people would use "C:" and not mean the root directory.

If I understand you correctly, what probably needs to happen is to immediately turn C: into the absolute path for cwd on that volume via getdcwd.

Is that right?

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Re^4: Path-Tiny-0.028 Path::Tiny on win32 turns C:/ or C:\ into C: / absolute / realpath are broken
by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 19, 2013 at 13:02 UTC

    Yes. I would consider it highly likely that people use the system as documented.

    Yes, getcwd getdcwd is the function that needs to get involved to make C: resolve correctly.

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      Thank you. A fixed Path::Tiny has been released to CPAN as version 0.029.

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        Cwd::getcwd doesn't take arguments, but ::realpath does 

        $ prove t\zzz-spec.t
t\zzz-spec.t .. 1/?
#   Failed test 'path('C:')'
#   at t\zzz-spec.t line 206.
#          got: 'C:/Documents and Settings/username'
#     expected: 'D:/perl/cpan/build/Path-Tiny-0.029-r_iWUJ'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 91.
t\zzz-spec.t .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/91 subtests

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        $ perl -MCwd -le " print Cwd::getcwd(q{C:})"
D:/perl/cpan/build

$ perl -MCwd -le " print Cwd::realpath(q{C:})"
C:/Documents and Settings/username

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