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From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: access()
Message-ID: <5980045@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 89 23:38:35 GMT
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> IEEE 1003.1 requires that consecutive slashes be allowed and in effect
> be interpreted as a single slash.  (Thus OpenNet's convention would not
> be POSIX-compliant.)

1003.1 makes an explicit exception for // at the start of a pathname,
precisely because of networked file systems like this.  Three or more
slashes at the beginning of a pathname or two or more anywhere else
are equivalent to a single slash.  This was the topic of considerable
debate, and varied among drafts.

		Bob Lenk
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