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Re: why does make strip / at the end of a directory prerequisite??
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Stephan Beal |
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Re: why does make strip / at the end of a directory prerequisite?? |
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Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:17:56 +0200 |
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Lane Schwartz <address@hidden> wrote:
> The value "/" on Unix-like systems is the directory path separator
> character.
>
Which has always left me wondering: what is the NAME of the root directory?
It is conventionally denoted as /, but since / is just the path separator,
what is its NAME?
(i'm not expecting an answer here - i just thought i'd throw that out there
as food for thought.)
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