The reason for this is to fix the following problems
- Even on non-Windows, drive letter recognition was still being handled.
- On Windows, paths starting with a slash were not expanded correctly.
- On Windows, relative paths containing drive letters behaved differently than in CRuby.
Due to reimplementation, the internal methods `File._concat_path`, `File._gethome` and `File._getwd` methods have been removed.
The purpose is as follows:
- Stop using `mrb_locale_from_utf8()`.
- Because there is no corresponding `mrb_utf8_from_locale()`.
- Because on Windows, for example, if the code page is 932 (CP932, likely ShiftJIS), it cannot be distinguished from the second byte 0x5c (\), and returns wrong results.
- Stop using `dirname(3)`.
- Because leading consecutive slashes are not truncated.
For example, if `/////a/b` is given, CRuby returns `/a`, but mruby so far returns `/////a`.
- Because the `path` argument cannot be passed in an immutable form.
- Stop using `_splitpath()` in the Windows implementation.
- Because there is no support for UNC paths with up to 32767 characters.
ref. https://learn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats#unc-paths
- Because modifying the result of paths terminated by a directory separator.
Previously, for example, `C:/` would return `C:.` instead of `C:/`, and `a/b/` would return `a/b` instead of `a`.
Change to `MRB_USE_IO_PREAD_PWRITE` for consistency with mruby configuration macros.
Similarly, `MRB_WITHOUT_IO_PREAD_PWRITE` is changed to `MRB_NO_IO_PREAD_PWRITE`.
The previous names are available for compatibility but are deprecated.
- The inner method `File._gethome` could be read as intending to use the `USERPROFILE` environment variable instead on Windows when the `HOME` environment variable is not available.
In reality, however, this was not the case.
- The result of `File.expand_path` should unify path separators with `/`, but it did not.
Now all functions with `io_buf` takes `mrb_io_buf` as an argument.
Renamed functions (old names):
- io_init_buf (io_buf_init)
- io_fill_buf (io_buf_fill)
- io_fill_buf_comp (io_buf_fill_comp) for UTF-8 encoding
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto