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From: | David De La Harpe Golden |
Subject: | Re: paths are sensative to double separators |
Date: | Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:33:38 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) |
Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
Actually, I believe posix says the exact opposite: Multiple slashes are equivalent to a single slash, except at the head of the path,where a double slash may have a different meaning.
(On the Apollo machines of old, running domain/os, a leading double slash indicated the "network root",
On ammig // is also meaningful, not just leading in leading positions, as the amiga "parent directory" syntax.
i.e. unix foo/bar/../baz amiga foo/bar//bazEmacs used to have an amiga port, but not sure whether it used ixemul.library (analogous to cygwin) or was native. In the latter case, it would have mattered.
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