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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: access()
Message-ID: <5615@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 03:45:38 GMT
References: <LFK.89Feb8170836@mbio.med.upenn.edu> <979@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <979@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) quotes POSIX:
     "pathname".  A string that is used to identify a *file*...It has
     an optional beginning *slash*, followed by zero or more
     *filenames* separated by *slashes*.

Hmmm...as I understand it, this disallows pathnames of the form
"//filename" and is ambiguous about pathnames of the form
"filename//filename".

This is not very UNIX-like.
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