[patch] IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH to handle both DOS and POSIX path st yles

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:12:45AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > You would still need to use substitute-path to handle drive names
> 
> Why? can't filename_cmp handle that as well?

I didn't think that statement through.  You need to use
substitute-path or "dir", because opening "c:\foo" on a Linux system
isn't going to find anything useful.

There's probably work to be done converting Windows slashes to POSIX
slashes automatically.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery