<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;" mce_style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">></span><span style="">> Yes, that's exactly what the author of this test (me) had in mind. :)</span><br style="">><span style="">> And it's not just a hypothetical posix thing either. Windows and cygwin</span><br style="">><span style="">> both use \\ and // to mean funny things. I remember also seeing something</span><br style="">><span style="">> like that on linux, though I can't remember now what was it being used for.</span><br style=""><br style="">><span style="">ok, we need to keep any paths starting with // or \\</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;" mce_style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style=""><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;" mce_style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="">I would add there are also cases where you *COMPILE* on one system (ie: Posix, build farm producing pre-built libraries, or complete applications) and debug on another system (Windows)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;" mce_style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;" mce_style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Practical example: produce an SDK on a POSIX platform - and your users/victims are on any of 3 platforms (mac, windows, linux) thus the build location is different then the debug location, and more importantly the OS might be different.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;" mce_style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;" mce_style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div></span></body></html>