From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:33:38 +0000 Message-ID: <49C273E2.7080701@harpegolden.net> References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> <20090319.064244.95961919.hanche@math.ntnu.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237484088 917 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 17:34:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:34:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 18:36:01 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 1LkM9t-0007J0-P0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:35:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkM8W-0004uX-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkLBt-0002rU-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkLBo-0002jR-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42142 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkLBo-0002iy-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:52932) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkLBn-0002hO-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:33:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.54.198] (87-198-54-198.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.54.198]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358168048; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:33:46 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) In-Reply-To: <20090319.064244.95961919.hanche@math.ntnu.no> 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:109700 Archived-At: Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > > Actually, I believe posix says the exact opposite: Multiple slashes > are equivalent to a single slash, except at the head of the path, > where a double slash may have a different meaning. > (On the Apollo > machines of old, running domain/os, a leading double slash indicated > the "network root", On ammig // is also meaningful, not just leading in leading positions, as the amiga "parent directory" syntax. i.e. unix foo/bar/../baz amiga foo/bar//baz Emacs used to have an amiga port, but not sure whether it used ixemul.library (analogous to cygwin) or was native. In the latter case, it would have mattered.