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From: dougm@ico.isc.com (Doug McCallum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: RFS vs. NFS (turned into "//" (super-root) discussion)
Keywords: POSIX Domain OS super-root-rot
Message-ID: <1990Sep2.194548.25502@ico.isc.com>
Date: 2 Sep 90 19:45:48 GMT
References: <1940@cybaswan.UUCP> <:4C5FLA@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug21.183615.8315@ico.isc.com> <1990Sep1.181027.20989@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: dougm@ico.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
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In article <1990Sep1.181027.20989@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dstailey@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Doug Stailey) writes:
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>POSIX says that multiple slashes collapse into one slash, so standards
>are on your side too.  Apollo's Domain OS is the first place that I

Actually, POSIX doesn't quite say this.  It says that a single slash is
the root, two slashes may be interpreted in an implementation dependent manner
and that three or more slashes collapse to the same as one.

As much as I think it is a bad idea, the standards allow it.

Doug McCallum
Interactive Systems Corp.
dougm@ico.isc.com