path.normalize not work well with windows style path on linux platform

[iahu]

Hi, I have a test case of normalize a windows style "path string" on linux platform.

on linux

path.normalize('\\pic\\..\\2016'); // -> \\pic\\..\\2016, expected return /pic/2016

but on windows

path.normalize('/a/b/../c.js'); // -> \\a\\c.js

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The questions are:

1. windows sep not replace with linux sep.
2. '..' part not works.

[targos]

Do you know before calling normalize that the path has Windows style ?
If so, you can explicitly call path.win32.normalize(thepath)

[mscdex]

You can already access platform-specific path.* methods via the path.posix and path.win32 namespaces. Is that what you're after?

[iahu]

Yes, path.win32 and path.posix is just what I want. Thanks @targos and @mscdex .

Unfortunately, I run a 0.10.30 version node. that not important, I have change my code to fix this failing. : )

I think path.normalize should be more "smarter".

There are no need use path.posix.normalize on windows version, because path.normalize just work well. but I doubt why linux version path.normalize not treat win-style path lick windows version treat with unix-style path, processing all the sep '\' and '..' well. That's strange.

[bnoordhuis]

why linux version path.normalize not treat win-style path lick windows version treat with unix-style path, processing all the sep '' and '..' well

Because on UNIX the backslash is a valid character inside a path component, i.e., it's not a separator. On Windows, the forward slash and the backward slash are both separators. Closing, not a bug.