Re: Patch for AS_MKDIR_P to properly support DOS paths

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 18, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd like the patch not to use the two of them.

But MS-Windows accepts both / and \ as pathname separators, even
within a single pathname.  So we should accept both of them too.

Whether we should handle \ especially on Unix platforms is the only
arguable issue.  I'd rather have a uniform behavior, which means we'd
handle \ as a pathname separator regardless of the platform.  After
all, nobody would be insane enough to have filenames or directory
names containing backslashes, right?

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