About paths beginning with two slashes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(computing)
quote: "A few Unix-like systems use a similar syntax.[2] POSIX allows treating a path beginning with two slashes in an implementation-defined manner,[3] though in other cases systems must treat multiple slashes as single slashes" Treating leading double slash differently is allowed in POSIX. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_04_11 About URIs, there is no confusion as RFC clearly has them documented. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe some things are being confused here. > > The moment you mention Samba shares, you get into the realm of URIs. These > are well defined and do have requirements about the early slashes. These are > specified in RFC 3986 Section 3, where you have either one or two slashes as > part of the syntax following the scheme name. Then, everything between there > and the question mark or hash mark is scheme specific. > > This is separate from the question of what is a valid path that can be passed > to open(2) or any of the other system calls that operate on paths. These > take an arbitrary number of slashes as equivalent to one slash. For example > you can do ls -l ///////////////// and get the same result as ls -l /. > > And finally, if you invoke the file scheme with file:/ , as defined by RFC > 1738 Section 3.10, the syntax after that is another slash, optional hostname, > slash, path, so would fall under the above rule. This is easily tested if > you open file:////////etc/////asound.conf in a browser. > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
