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Re: why does make strip / at the end of a directory prerequisite??


From: Stephan Beal
Subject: Re: why does make strip / at the end of a directory prerequisite??
Date: 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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----- stephan beal
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