std.path review: update

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> wrote in message 
news:j01trl$2ia$6 at digitalmars.com...
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:16:29 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> In driveName:
>>
>> Should std.path handle uunc paths?  i.e. \\servername\share\path  (I
>> think if it does, it should specify \\servername\share as the drive)
>
> Yes, std.path is supposed to support UNC paths.  For instance, the
> following works now:
>
>  assert (equal(pathSplitter(`\\foo\bar\baz`), [`\\foo`, "bar", "baz"]));
>
> I guess you would rather have that
>
>  assert (equal(pathSplitter(`\\foo\bar\baz`), [`\\foo\bar`, "baz"]));
>
> then?  I am not very familiar with Windows network shares; is \\foo never
> a valid path on its own?
>

I don't know whether or not it's "never" a valid path, but "dir \\server" 
always fails and "dir \\server\share" always works (assuming it exists, at 
least). So treating the whole thing as a drive might be the right thing to 
do. (Of course, it's completely moronic that WIndows works that way...)


>> fcmp:
>> "On Windows, fcmp is an alias for std.string.icmp, which yields a case
>> insensitive comparison. On POSIX, it is an alias for std.algorithm.cmp,
>> i.e. a case sensitive comparison."
>>
>> What about comparing c:/foo with c:\foo?  This isn't going to be equal
>> with icmp.
>
> I am a bit unsure what to do about the comparison functions (fcmp,
> pathCharMatch and globMatch).  Aside from the issue with directory
> separators it is, as was pointed out by someone else, entirely possible
> to mount case-sensitive file systems on Windows and case-insensitive file
> systems on POSIX.  (The latter is not uncommon on OSX, I believe.)  I am
> open to suggestions.
>

If such mountings are possible, it would seem that there must be some way to 
check the sensitivity (otherwise the OS itself would probably crap out on 
it).

Although, at least in the case of case-insensitive mountings on posix, 
doesn't that mean such paths would have both case-sensitive and 
case-insensitive parts?

Ex: /mount/damnWinDrive/dir/subdir

Wouldn't the "mount/damnWinDrive" part be case-sensitive and the 
"dir/subdir" part be insensitve?

(I'm starting to really despise case-insensitive filesystems.)