Re: double slashes in comp paths

Shane McCarron <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.mason.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
No... there really can't be.  The only place in any file system where a 
double slash is significant was at the top - and then only on some 
tektronix UNIX systems in the early 80s.

POSIX says that mutliple slashes are interpreted as a single slash, and 
everyone else adopted that.

Jonathan Swartz wrote:

>> On Nov 8, 2004, at 6:07 AM, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
>>
>>> Should double slashes be valid in component paths? Right now 
>>> mason_canonpath does not remove them, so that component paths 
>>> foo/bar/baz and foo/bar//baz are considered different. Are there 
>>> filesystems for which a doubleslash in the middle of the path is 
>>> significant?
>>
>>
>>
>> I believe that most Unixen will consider a double slash to be the 
>> same as a single slash.
>>
>>   geertz% cd /usr/local//bin
>>   geertz% pwd
>>   /usr/local/bin
>>
>
> I know. The question is, is there a Unixen (or other OS) that is 
> supported by Mason and does consider // to be different from /?
>
>
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