perhaps it is in antisipation of //machine/share/ in ms/linux :)
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:16:39AM +1100, Marty Richards wrote:
> Typing "cd //" takes me to a directory apparently called "//". pwd then
> shows me to be in "//".
>
> This seems to happen on Slackware 7.0, Suse 6.4 and at least one version of
> Debian so far.
>
> So this is a POSIX thing? maybe. How come its not all distro's then? Or is
> it a recent kernel thing (2.2.14 on mine).
>
> Cheers,
> Marty
>
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> Herbert Xu
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> Subject: Re: [SLUG] // ??
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> >> I accidently typed cd // on one of my slackware 7.0 boxes.
>
> >> Surprisingly it happily took me to //, which seems to be an alias for
> the /
> >> directory.
>
> Two leading slashes leads to implementation-defined behaviour, per POSIX.
> That's why bash leaves them alone. Three or more leading slashes are
> equivalent to a single one.
>
> So don't use two leading slashes in your scripts if you want to be portable,
> but you can use two slashes (as another way of writing a single slash) when
> they're in the middle or at the end.
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