Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: access() Message-ID: <3112@ficc.uu.net> Date: 15 Feb 89 23:09:39 GMT References: <979@auspex.UUCP> <999@auspex.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Xenix Support Lines: 21 In article <999@auspex.UUCP>, guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes: > Multiple successive *slashes* are considered the same as one > *slash*. A pathname that begins with two successive *slashes* > may be interpreted in an implementation-defined manner, although > more than two leading *slashes* shall be treated as a single > *slash*. So someone should tell the people doing HDB uucp to stop converting: //node/path/file into: /node/path/file so we could access remote nodes on our net from our new System V box. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Work: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. `-_-' Home: bigtex!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.uu.net. 'U` Opinions may not represent the policies of FICC or the Xenix Support group.