2 Sep
2004
2 Sep
'04
1:31 p.m.
Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
At 01:53 PM 8/30/2004, Carlo Wood wrote:
My idea on this was (and still is) that it is possible to convert a relative path to an absolute path (automatically) by adding an absolute path object reference to the relative path object.
Yes, as long as you know the absolute path reference. Is the absolute path reference known for all operating systems? I'm not sure about that. For example, there have been multi-rooted systems that didn't have a concept of "current drive". How would that work? <snip>
Further, I know of one OS that supports directories but not a current directory: Windows CE. All paths passed to its filesystem functions must be absolute.