Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:18:51 -0600 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: Linux's future: //posix/ipc, //root and so on ? |
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> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > AC> Millions of apps rely on // working. > > > > > > Are you sure ? Why ? Till there no warning we can not check it. > > > > Because everyone knows // is fine so everyone is really sloppy about > > combining paths together.
Not everyone. Just those doing it wrong. If you're going to be combining paths together, you should be following the POSIX recommendation and using ///, just because // at the beginning could be special.
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