Thanks, Eric, you're absolutely right; good spot! Christopher Ertl | MSRC Vulnerabilities & Mitigations | Microsoft Limited Microsoft Limited (company number 01624297) is a company registered in England and Wales whose registered office is at Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading. RG6 1WG -----Original Message----- From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 5:51 PM To: Christopher Ertl <Christopher.Ertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Windows absolute drive path detection incomplete On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 12:45 PM Christopher Ertl <Christopher.Ertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So I'm proposing to remove the check for the drive letter being alpha in `has_dos_drive_prefix` macro: > > #define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) \ > ( (path)[1] == ':' ? 2 : 0) Nit: This isn't safe and will access memory beyond end-of-string if path is zero-length. Perhaps something like this would be better: #define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) \ (*(path) && (path)[1] == ':' ? 2 : 0)