28 Oct
2004
28 Oct
'04
7:54 p.m.
Graham Klyne
The first one. "//" is equal to "/", isn't it?
Is it? Is it definitely prohibited to have a zero length path segment.
FWIW, on Linux, the system calls (stat, open, etc), and thus the fileutils, seem to treat it as above, a strace of ls gives me: stat64("/tmp///////foo//////", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=60,...}) = 0 open("/tmp///////foo//////", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 OTOH, emacs treats foo//bar as /bar -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants