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From: lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: To . or not to .
Message-ID: <972@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 19:53:38 EST
Article-I.D.: tut.972
Posted: Tue Nov  3 19:53:38 1987
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Summary: system allows ///////////////////////

In article <9171@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
	...
> If System V's namei is consistent, this will fail in the same way
> as open("", 0) (and it will not accept names like a//b or //x).
	...

SVR2 (and any AT&T Unix system I'm familiar with) lets you use
multiple /.

	//a is the same as /a
	a//b is the same as a/b

This nice thing about doing it this way is that you can be a little
sloppy in your program and it will still work.  I admit it I'm lazy!
And what is the harm anyway?  Perhaps in some situations a // indicates
a broken program.

Another case of damned if you do and damned if you don't.

	Larry Cipriani tut!lvc