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moonfruit opened this issue Aug 2, 2018 · 2 comments
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path/filepath: filepath.Abs("") returned different results in windows and other systems #26763

moonfruit opened this issue Aug 2, 2018 · 2 comments
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moonfruit commented Aug 2, 2018 •
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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

1.10.3

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

darwin,amd64 and windows,amd64

What did you do?

abs, err := filepath.Abs("")

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What did you expect to see?

filepath.Abs("") returns same results in all systems.

What did you see instead?

In windows, filepath.Abs("") returned an error which is The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
And in macOS, filepath.Abs("") returned current working directory.
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ALTree commented Aug 2, 2018 •
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This is #24441 and it should be fixed on tip (to be released as Go1.11 soon). See CL 112935.

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bcmills commented Aug 2, 2018

Closing as duplicate. Please let us know if this isn't fixed in go1.11beta2.

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