[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #46561: Make wp_normalize_path() on Windows resolve drive letter for drive–relative paths

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#46561: Make wp_normalize_path() on Windows resolve drive letter for drive–relative
paths
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 Reporter:  Rarst                     |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Filesystem API            |     Version:  3.9
 Severity:  minor                     |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Rarst):

 I now think making this check for a real file is too major of a backwards
 compatibility break. It's simply not what the function currently does and
 it's so generic, there is no way to tell what could that break in the
 wild.

 By the way disk checks can be very expensive for performance. Hitting disk
 is much slower than memory and on Windows file exists checks are not as
 heavily cached by file system as on Linux, so they can cause massive
 slowdowns there, if called often. I would probably only consider
 introducing an implicit disk lookup if one is functionally unavoidable.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/46561#comment:5>
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