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authorTimothy J Fontaine <tjfontaine@gmail.com>2013-06-10 17:09:54 -0700
committerChris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>2014-11-20 16:10:55 -0800
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path: allow calling platform specific methods
Add path.posix and path.win32 which have the specific methods like resolve and normalize so you can specifically normalize or resolve based on the target platform. PR-URL: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/5661 Reviewed-by: Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
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@@ -201,3 +201,13 @@ An example on Windows:
process.env.PATH.split(path.delimiter)
// returns
['C:\Windows\system32', 'C:\Windows', 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\']
+
+## path.posix
+
+Provide access to aforementioned `path` methods but always interact in a posix
+compatible way.
+
+## path.win32
+
+Provide access to aforementioned `path` methods but always interact in a win32
+compatible way.