[2/3] ntdll: don't treat DOS paths starting with / as Unix paths

[Paul Chitescu]

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 17:30:57 Ben Klein wrote:
> 2009/4/8 Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com> 
wrote:
> >> A real user who is trying to get real work done won't run the python
> >> test suite.
> >
> > True.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Out of curiosity, why do the python tests even care if /bin/sh exists?
> >
> > The python tests run on multiple platforms, some of which have a
> > working /bin/sh. If it exists, certain ones (there are only two) will
> > start an sh process and read its output.
>
> Surely this is still a bug in the Python test suite though. They
> should know that "/bin/sh" is not technically a valid path on
> Windows/DOS systems, and it only works due to system magic translating
> /'s to \'s.

Ben,

Paths with slashes ARE valid in DOS/Windows since the dawn of DOS 2.0 (first 
to include paths). While there are bugs in some versions at the API level 
forward or backward slashes (or mixtures) can be used for any operation.

Only the command line parsers make a difference because forward slash was used 
as option separator since CP/M.

So /bin/sh is just equivalent to \bin\sh on the default drive.