[Mono-bugs] [Bug 50842][Wis] New - System.IO.DirectoryInfo has broken ToString method.

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http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50842

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+Bug#: 50842
+Product: Mono/Class Libraries
+Version: unspecified
+OS: unknown
+OS Details: Debian unstable of 2003-11-12
+Status: NEW   
+Resolution: 
+Severity: 
+Priority: Wishlist
+Component: CORLIB
+AssignedTo: mono-bugs@ximian.com                            
+ReportedBy: gs234-mono-bugzilla@srcf.ucam.org               
+QAContact: mono-bugs@ximian.com
+TargetMilestone: ---
+URL: 
+Cc: 
+Summary: System.IO.DirectoryInfo has broken ToString method.
+
+Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you
+are doing.
+Description of Problem:
+
+
+Steps to reproduce the problem:
+$ cat > test.cs
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+
+class Test
+{
+  public static void Main ()
+  {
+    string path = "/a/b/c/d/e";
+
+    Console.WriteLine (new DirectoryInfo (path).ToString ());
+  }
+}
+
+Actual Results:
+
+e
+
+Expected Results:
+
+/a/b/c/d/e
+
+Additional Information:
+
+This is a distilled version of a problem that occurs when trying to run the
+SML.NET compiler from <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/TSG/SMLNET/> under
+Mono.  The file smlnet/src/clr/getsysdir.cs uses Directory.GetParent on an
+absolute path and calls ToString on the result, expecting to get a usable,
+absolute directory path in return.  Instead, it gets the basename of the
+directory.
+
+The MSDN documentation is a bit terse on the subject ("Get the orginial
+path as specified by the user"), but Mono is clearly not delivering
+expected behaviour here.