[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45816] canonicalize_file_name() changed behavior between 3.8.2 and 4.0.0 on windows

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #19, bug #45816 (project octave):

@Rik:
Your patch works fine, both on Linux and Windows. On Windows it neatly
converts forward slashes in its argument to backslashes.
I have no opinion placement of #include.

@comment #16:
I think what counts is cygwin's "native" filesep as reported by Octave, i.e.,
what does "filesep" return and what fileseps does e.g., "pwd" return?
(I don't cygwin anymore since several years so I wouldn't know)

If it were indeed '/' I agree this patch shouldn't work on cygwin.

Perusing the cygwin docs I get no clear answer; cygwin prefers '/' but does
accept '\' and emulates some dumb file mode then (case-insensitive, FAT-like
permissions etc).

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