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From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles)
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Subject: Re: /-happy
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Date: 20 Aug 90 22:06:26 GMT
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merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
|>
|>The null pathname (look carefully between the consecutive "/"-s, and
|>you'll see them there) is a valid synonym for the "current directory".
|>
|>So aaa////bbb is the same as aaa/././././bbb, except that you don't
|>have to stat "." four additional times (it'd be fast, but it still
|>takes time).
|>
|>Just another Unix hacker,
|>--
|>/=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\
|>| on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III      |
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|>\=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/


Not true.  (At least in 4.2BSD, and I'm too lazy to check SysV 3.2... :-)
Here's a small snippit of code from sys/ufs_nami.c

        ...
        if (*cp == '/') {
                while (*cp == '/')
                        cp++;
        ...


Thus, the multiple '/' 's are just ignored.

        -Jeff
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