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RE: 1.5.25-7: problem about bash completion


On 09 January 2008 14:00, Eric Blake wrote:

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> According to kou yu on 12/26/2007 10:07 AM:
>>> POSIX *allows* '//something' to have a special meaning.  It doesn't
>>> state that it is necessarily the syntax for SMB share paths.
>>> 
>> In fact, if you simply say that this is not a bug of cygwin, but a
>> feature, then I would believe you.
> 
> It is a feature of cygwin that // is used, in accordance with SUSv3 and
> POSIX, as the implementation-defined start for remote paths.  It is a
> feature of Linux that // is treated as an implementation-defined synonym
> of /.  

  It's not just that: it's definitely a bug in applications when they blindly append paths without caring if they double up slashes or not, just because it /usually/ works.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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