From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Rose Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:48:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87hc1palnq.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237456055 27926 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 09:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mike Mattie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: xah@xahlee.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 10:48:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkErm-000463-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:48:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkEqP-0002Iu-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkEoK-00013b-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkEoF-00010Y-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53851 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkEoF-00010J-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:60215) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkEoE-0003zk-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:45:07 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2009 09:45:04 -0000 Original-Received: from p5B043087.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ.gmx.de) [91.4.48.135] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 19 Mar 2009 10:45:04 +0100 X-Authenticated: #8529601 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+jR0Mof+KjJ+fsNXmkkDcy5d209SnLAeDshoWU2F vENgi3y13XGp9w In-Reply-To: (xah lee's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:50:37 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.8100000000000001 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109687 Archived-At: xah lee writes: > in unix-like OSes, double slash is effectively taken to mean root. > e.g. /foo/bar//baz.el would mean /baz.el > This convention is somewhat rooted in unixes. ls /usr//bin -- Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472 Fax: +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044 mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417 Http: www.emma-stil.de