Subject: Re: README: changes to pathname resolution
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@layla.inka.de>
List: current-users
Date: 04/08/1997 16:12:36
On Tue, 08 Apr 1997 10:04:17 -0400,
Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> > (1) "" no longer refers to the current working directory;
> > looking this up will now result in ENOENT.
>
> One question: does this affect the handling of "//"?
>
> In other words, does /foo//bar still access the file /foo/bar ?
That's still OK (and, in fact, POSIX.1 says: "Multiple successive
slashes are considered the same as one slash.").
-klaus