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| author | Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com> | 2017-06-06 12:19:23 +0300 |
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| committer | Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com> | 2017-06-06 12:19:23 +0300 |
| commit | 422722ff67fc29e1cfd212d183a9594f8869de7f (patch) | |
| tree | 191395c0254bde2d0bdeb41e210fb393bcb43f7c /doc/api/path.md | |
| parent | f1199c2bb4fe07fd9fdba3d6728f4791f66b2ea7 (diff) | |
win, doc: document per-drive current working dir
Add note to fs.md and path.md about Windows using per-drive current
working directory.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9378
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13330
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/api/path.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/path.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/path.md b/doc/api/path.md index cf096ef9851..0bc6c88ded3 100644 --- a/doc/api/path.md +++ b/doc/api/path.md @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ path.posix.basename('/tmp/myfile.html'); // Returns: 'myfile.html' ``` +*Note:* On Windows Node.js follows the concept of per-drive working directory. +This behavior can be observed when using a drive path without a backslash. For +example `path.resolve('c:\\')` can potentially return a different result than +`path.resolve('c:')`. For more information, see +[this MSDN page][MSDN-Rel-Path]. + ## path.basename(path[, ext]) <!-- YAML added: v0.1.25 @@ -550,3 +556,4 @@ of the `path` methods. [`path.posix`]: #path_path_posix [`path.sep`]: #path_path_sep [`path.win32`]: #path_path_win32 +[MSDN-Rel-Path]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247.aspx#fully_qualified_vs._relative_paths |