William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:

> Anyways, the correct fix appears to be; FIRST evaluate that prior segment
> begins with / or \, as well as begins with : or looking for characters.
> Patch committed, see;
> 
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/trunk/file_io/win32/filepath.c
> 
> commit 424915.

Thanks Bill for the thorough review and solution!

> As a future hint for better svn integration, please feel free to add any
> incident to our http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla, and fill in the URI with
> the link to the SVN incident.  Visa versa - tag the svn incident with the
> bugzilla incident URI.  I think it would promote better problem ticket 
> handling.

Yup, I agree. Next time I'll use your issue tracker as well.
regards,

Lieven.