MSVC patch: "cd" to root dir

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Jan-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| This patch solves a problem under Win32: you can't "cd" to root dir. Indeed,
| you need a final backslash for the function "chdir" to succeed.
| 
| Michael.
| 
| Index: liboctave/lo-sysdep.cc
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /cvs/octave/liboctave/lo-sysdep.cc,v
| retrieving revision 1.11
| diff -c -r1.11 lo-sysdep.cc
| *** liboctave/lo-sysdep.cc      6 Dec 2006 20:23:18 -0000       1.11
| --- liboctave/lo-sysdep.cc      14 Jan 2007 12:13:11 -0000
| ***************
| *** 89,94 ****
| --- 89,98 ----
|  
|     return retval;
|   #else
| + #if defined (__WIN32__)
| +   if (path.length() == 2 && path[1] == ':')
| +     path += "\\";
| + #endif
|     return chdir (path.c_str ());
|   #endif
|   }

I checked in this change, but with

  if defined (__WIN32__) && ! defined (__CYGWIN__)

because I think cd ("C:") should not be special on a Cygwin system.

Thanks,

jwe