- // that use top-level single character directory names. we cannot help that, because
- // we *know* msys is a choice used in other code a lot.
-//hmmm: future revision: see if the file or directory '/x' actually exists on current drive? yuck.
+ // of folks that might use a top-level single character directory name. we cannot
+ // help them, because we have made a design decision to support msys-style paths.
+ // note that this would only affect someone if they were referring to their directory on
+ // the current windows partition (c:, d:, etc.) without providing the drive letter,
+ // if they had that single character directory name (e.g., c:\x, d:\q, etc.) and even
+ // then only on the near defunct windows platform.