+
+ // if we still have a unix style path here on windows, then there will be
+ // trouble when we pass that to the OS. we are not using any cygwin or
+ // other virtualization libraries directly, so we can't rely on those to
+ // fix the path. but if we built under something like cygwin, we should
+ // have stored the real dos-style location of the virtual unix root. we
+ // will use that to replace the root '/' and this should fix most of that
+ // style of path.
+ bool inject_root = false; // assume we don't need to do anything.
+
+//LOG(astring("before root injection: ") + raw());
+
+ // condition here just checks if the path is only the root.
+ if ( (length() == 1) && separator(get(0)) ) { inject_root = true; }
+
+//if (inject_root) LOG("decided to inject root since path is '/'.");
+
+ // condition is looking for first character being a slash, and second char as alphanumeric or dash or underscore.
+ // we will currently fail detecting freaky paths that don't start off with alphanumeric or one of that small set of special chars.
+ if ( (length() >= 2)
+ && separator(get(0))
+ && ( textual::parser_bits::is_alphanumeric(get(1)) || ('-' == get(1)) || ('_' == get(1)) ) ) {
+ inject_root = true;
+//if (inject_root) LOG(astring("decided to inject root since path is compatible: ") + *this);
+ }
+
+//LOG(astring("after second phase root injection: ") + raw());
+
+ if (inject_root) {
+ // inject the actual path to the unix root in front, if we know it.
+ // if we don't know it, then a default path that's unlikely to work is idiotically plugged in.
+ insert(0, FEISTY_MEOW_VIRTUAL_UNIX_ROOT);
+//LOG(astring("turned cygdrive path string into: ") + raw());
+ }