> As the BSD derived systems seem to exhibit this, a bit counter-intuitive,
> behaviour, maybe we should declare it "a good thing"?

V7 accepted it, too. I don't have a problem with it, since it makes
it easier to implement folding extra / in path names (like $HOME/.profile
expanding to //.profile for root).
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