[issue47161] pathlib method relative_to doesnt work with // in paths

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Hmm..., I get it, but Im not gonna lie it's pretty confusing given 
> that in other places `//` works as a substitute for `/`. Maybe it 
> should be mentioned in the documentation?

In Linux, the system resolves "//" as just "/". In other POSIX systems, such as Cygwin or MSYS2 (running in Windows), "//" is a UNC path of the form "//server/share/filepath". I would expect resolve() to handle this. For example:

Linux:

    >>> p = pathlib.Path('//tmp')
    >>> p
    PosixPath('//tmp')
    >>> p.resolve()
    PosixPath('/tmp')

However, resolve() is broken for a UNC path in 3.9 under MSYS2:

    >>> p = pathlib.Path('//localhost/C$/temp')
    >>> p.exists()
    True
    >>> p.resolve()
    PosixPath('/localhost/C$/temp')
    >>> p.resolve().exists()
    False

realpath() is also broken for this case in 3.9 under MSYS2:

    >>> os.path.realpath(p)
    '/localhost/C$/temp'

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nosy: +eryksun

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