2004-09-07 20:39:29

by Tom Vier

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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:31:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Using '//' would be nice, but would break real apps. If I remember
> correctly, POSIX specifies that '//' can be special at the _beginning_ of
> a path, but in the middle, it has to act like a single '/'.

FWIW, QNX uses // for it's network fs (nfs?). //0/ means current node, //1/
first node, //2/ second, etc. I didn't even know posix said anything about
// before.

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