Re: glob() problem with double '//' in path

[Kris Warkentin]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It is a known issue with Windows system calls and API functions: they
> barf on multiple consecutive slashes.  A better way is to fix this in
> the underlying library, but that's impossible to do in a native
> Windows port (Cygwin and DJGPP do that, but then they own the
> library).
>
> It's probably best to condition the patch in WINDOWS32, or perhaps
> invent a function e.g. normalize_file_name that would be a no-op on
> all platforms except Windows and hide its implementation on a
> Windows-specific file.
>  

Okay.  Right at the moment we're scrambling to get a beta out the door 
but when I have some spare time, I'll try to clean it up.

cheers,

Kris