Cygwin, and possibly, the Win32 module, are inconsistent in handling
the differences between i:/foobar/ and i:. On one hand i: is
considered a 'volume' but on the other hand i:/ seems to evaluate to
the same, incorrect, value. In "Win32", each 'fs' of form "<x>:', x
of class <[:alpha:]>, there is a process-specific "current
directory". This can be seen by:
In the old DOS days yes, but in Win32 there is only one current
directory. The illusion of having a current directory per drive and an
active drive is maintained in cmd.exe (or is it in the MS C runtime?).
As cygwin doesn't use it, i:foobar and i:/foobar is always the same.