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From: jsb@panix.UUCP (J. S. B'ach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Bug in Workspace/Browser (name expansion)
Message-ID: <611@panix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 13:26:29 GMT
References: <19360@mephisto.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsb@panix.UUCP (J. S. B'ach)
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In article <19360@mephisto.UUCP> gil@daffy.gatech.edu (Gil Neiger) writes:
)There seems to be a bug in the name expansion facilty of the
)Directory Browser supplied by Workspace.  The bug involves the
)parsing of path names with two consecutive slashes in them.

Unless Mach changed this, namei in the Version 6 unix kernel had the "feature"
of ignoring extra slashes.  Anyhow, I've tried it in several variations with
and without filec set and it works fine for me.  Has anyone else been able to
duplicaate this bug?

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