>From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jonas Munsin wrote:
>>> command in Linux, or in a script, I ALWAYS use a trailing "/" as
>>> it prevents this problem. If you're worried about double slashes
>>> being used via scripts, don't worry, it is handled correctly, for
>>> example:
>>>
>>
>>And this is of course utterly non-portable:
>>
>>aton:~/tmp$ uname -a
>>SunOS aton 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
>>aton:~/tmp$ echo 1234 > file
>>aton:~/tmp$ ls -l
>>total 2
>>-rw------- 1 jmunsin infpersonal 5 Oct 10 12:42 file
>>aton:~/tmp$ cp file dir/
>>aton:~/tmp$ ls -l
>>total 4
>>-rw------- 1 jmunsin infpersonal 5 Oct 10 12:42 dir
>>-rw------- 1 jmunsin infpersonal 5 Oct 10 12:42 file
>Perhaps it is time to upgrade. A fine young Finnish cs student
>once created an operating system around your neck of the woods
>that is quite portable. ;o)
But obviously buggy. Did you report that bug to the Linux kernel team?
J�rg
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