Absolute path to view partials treated as local

[Thomas Hunter II]

I'm passing in an absolute path to a view partial HTML file, but it is being treated as a local path. For example:

var partial_path = '/Users/tlhunter/proj/site/controllers/users/views/function.html';
res.render('layouts/main.html', {
  partials: {
    body: partial_path
  },
  title: "Homepage"
});

Errors with the following output:

Error: ENOENT, open '/Users/tlhunter/proj/site/views/Users/tlhunter/proj/site/controllers/users/views/function.html'

I feel that if a view partial's path begins with a /, it should not be appended to the path where views are usually kept, but should be treated as an absolute path.