HI all,
How about QNX, a leading // indicate you want to access
a different node in a group.
regards,
Nico
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:29
> To: Peter Prymmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Brian Ingerson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Inline on VMS (was Re: perl@9172)
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:17:15AM -0800, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> >
> > > There are two problems here, one the double slash before "build,"
> > > which I assume would be a problem even on Unix, and the
> other is the
> > > extremely long directory name. The most common volume
> format on VMS
> > > has a limit of 39.39, but I believe Perl also supports
> 8.3 and 14.3
> > > filesystems which would run into trouble far sooner. For creating
> > > temporary directory names portably you might consider using
> > > File::Temp, where the porting work has already been done.
> >
> > As a practical matter the double slash may not be a problem on most
> > contemporary commercial unixes including linux and *BSD,
> but of course
> > Perl is supposed to work even on older/odder unixes. The
> two file systems
> > that I know where // is definitely a problem are Mach Ten
> running on Mac
> > OS and Unix Systems services on OS/390. In the former case
> a _leading_ //
> > indicates acess to a Mac OS file and in the latter case a
> _leading_ //
> > indicates a path to an MVS legacy data set (hence at least
> for OS/390 a
> > // in the middle of a filepath should pose no problem but
> it's use is
> > highly discouraged).
>
> A third one is the Apollo Domain/OS (pretty rare these days,
> admittedly, but still not gone) filesystem. Basically, a leading //
> indicates a network filesystem, //foo indicates data living in the
> cluster node foo, IIRC.
>
> --
> $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/
> # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
> # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
>
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