[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57664] dir() function folder element is empty for Windows UNC network-based files

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #57664 (project octave):

The function canonicalize_file_name we get from gnulib.  Can you check whether
the UNC path actually exists at the time canonicalize_file_name is called? 
You can do that without calling dir() by just invoking the function directly.


r = canonicalize_file_name ("//hostname/path/to/directory")


The function will return "" if it cannot find the path which could be caused
by typos, network errors, etc.

Also, see bug #45816 from 5 years ago in which other problems with
canonicalize_file_name were addressed.


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