Re: [2/3] ntdll: don't treat DOS paths starting with / as Unix paths

[Ben Klein]

2009/4/8 Vincent Povirk :
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov  wrote:
> > A real user who is trying to get real work done won't run the python
> > test suite.
>
> True.
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Henri Verbeet  wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, why do the python tests even care if /bin/sh exists?
>
> The python tests run on multiple platforms, some of which have a
> working /bin/sh. If it exists, certain ones (there are only two) will
> start an sh process and read its output.

Surely this is still a bug in the Python test suite though. They
should know that "/bin/sh" is not technically a valid path on
Windows/DOS systems, and it only works due to system magic translating
/'s to 's.