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win32 path.normalize change in behavior #18763
Description
- Version: v8.9.4
- Platform: Windows 10 64-bit
- Subsystem: path
So there seems to have been some change in path.normalize for win32 between Node.js 8.4.0 and 8.5.0 that changed how paths are being normalized. There seems to be a behavior difference with some paths that looked like drive-relative paths. Example:
> path.normalize(".\\C:../..")
'.'
Versions 8.4.0 and below used to do this:
> path.normalize(".\\C:../..")
'C:..\\..'
Is this an expected change?
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[-]win32 path.normalize for drive-relative seems wrong[/-][+]win32 path.normalize change in behavior[/+]BridgeAR commentedon Feb 14, 2018
Refs: #14107
Ping @targos
targos commentedon Feb 14, 2018
I think we can say that it is expected.
The behavior present in versions <8.5.0 and <6.12.0 is the result of a bug that stayed for a long time without being noticed.
All releases of
v4.xandv9.xreturn'.'.FWIW, in Python,
normpath(".\\C:../..")also returns'.'.@dougwilson what is it breaking?
dougwilson commentedon Feb 15, 2018
Hi @targos there isn't anything specifically breaking here; there was a change in behavior of an application I have and tracked it down to this, and was not sure why it happened within a minor release, so just wanted to confirm it was intentional. The new behavior is correct vs the old behavior of course.
BridgeAR commentedon Feb 15, 2018
Closing as the question seems to be answered now.