Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy schrieb:

  > is_dir_sep() or even use your previous implementation of is_root_path 
  > (because this implementation is a bit cryptic).
  >
  > But if the new callers of this function will only pass the results of 
  > normalize_path_copy() and getcwd() (both return only forward-slashes on 
  > Windows), then I'm fine with this version. Do they?

  They do. But future-proofing can never be a bad thing.

Thanks, but...

+int offset_1st_component(const char *path)
+{
+	int len = 0;
+	if (has_dos_drive_prefix(path))
+		len += 2;
+	if (is_dir_sep(path[len]))
+		return len++;

oops, does this work at all for you? You must not have 'return' here.

+	return len;
+}

-- Hannes