Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758049Ab1FWNR5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:17:57 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:58351 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755646Ab1FWNRz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:17:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ImitLUehCErhz4cEDuJLsDdWllxA4PMKril4mTmM1d5U6eT74+H2Mg8PbVx7TnKgd7 gMlNg1pQfPLOYjsUTWsdZ59tB+epDTvQsIU1abHwLVegWPzo8819nROopFFtzk+xm8UN vOqg685WlcdLTQbwKK9++lEi00zpBYofzX+3I= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:17:54 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: extra slash in current path From: Alessandro Suardi To: yuyichao-mit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 33 On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:14 PM, yuyichao-mit wrote: > The problem is like this: > > $ cd / > $ pwd > / > > $ cd / > $ pwd > // > > $ cd /// > $ pwd > / > > Why can there be a extra slash (and exactly one) in current path? Is > this designed on purpose? > This is not really a big deal but I think it can confuse some program. Multiple consecutive slashes should not confuse any program. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_266 --alessandro ?"There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck" ?? (Radiohead, "There There") -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/