Does This Scare You?

[eryk sun]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Trying to be" cross-platform? The point of these path modules is to
> *be* cross-platform. I can't call Windows APIs on my Linux box (short
> of messing around with VMs or Wine or something, which are
> dependencies that Python doesn't need). So yes, these *are*
> cross-platform, and that's not scary, that's deliberate design.

Sorry for the wording SNAFU there. Of course it's cross-platform. But
I think it's a dubious check. On Windows itself I would never try what
it's attempting to do. I would just call GetFullPathName to see if the
path changes to use the \\.\ device namespace. I doubt that the 3
examples I gave are the only places that this simplistic
implementation of 'is_reserved" fails. It's giving a dangerous
impression to the user that the path will be safe to use on Windows
when that's not the case.