hostPath = volumeutil.MakeAbsolutePath(runtime.GOOS, hostPath)
		}

		containerPath := mount.MountPath
		// IsAbs returns false for UNC path/SMB shares/named pipes in Windows. So check for those specifically and skip MakeAbsolutePath
		if !volumeutil.IsWindowsUNCPath(runtime.GOOS, containerPath) && !utilfs.IsAbs(containerPath) {
			containerPath = volumeutil.MakeAbsolutePath(runtime.GOOS, containerPath)
		}

	// Leave absolute paths alone.
	// Also, during -n mode we use the pseudo-directory $WORK
	// instead of creating an actual work directory that won't be used.
	// Leave paths beginning with $WORK alone too.
	if filepath.IsAbs(f) || strings.HasPrefix(f, "$WORK") {
		return f
	}
	return filepath.Join(dir, f)
}

type toolchain interface {
	// gc runs the compiler in a specific directory on a set of files

	// Note that we use path, not path/filepath even though a domain socket path is a file path.  We don't want the
	// Pilot output to depend on which OS Pilot is run on, so we always use Unix-style forward slashes.
	if !path.IsAbs(addr) || strings.HasSuffix(addr, "/") {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s is not an absolute path to a file", addr)
	}
	return nil
}

// ValidateGateway checks gateway specifications

		}
		switch {
		case build.IsLocalImport(p):
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: argument must be a package path, not a relative path", arg)
		case filepath.IsAbs(p):
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: argument must be a package path, not an absolute path", arg)
		case search.IsMetaPackage(p):
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: argument must be a package path, not a meta-package", arg)