On 2008-10-02, at 12:00, Tony Finch wrote:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Peter da Silva wrote:
The intent was that the special case // sequence (which is
actually in POSIX,
though I don't think anyone implemented anything using it in any
post-POSIX
environments, it was included to support things like the OpenNet
super-root),
after a special file, indicated a non-enumerable and non-saved name.
// is only special at the start of a pathname.
OK, then we don't have a visual indication of the non-enumerable
path. It doesn't matter, it can still be implemented as:
/dev/win/anon/geometry=80x24+10+10/type=text/title=filename
since namei() can just treat everything under the anon device node as
a 333 mode directory.
