Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: paths like //usr/local Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:01:19 +0200 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3DAD0EBF.2060807@upb.de> References: <20021015195933.GB14116@redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pd953c4b8.dip.t-dialin.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034751624 16079 217.83.196.184 (16 Oct 2002 07:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:00:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en > To quote from the Single Unix Specification v3: > > "A pathname consisting of a single slash shall resolve to the root > directory of the process. A null pathname shall not be successfully > resolved. A pathname that begins with two successive slashes may be > interpreted in an implementation-defined manner, although more than two > leading slashes shall be treated as a single slash." damn - who wrote that spec? i might think of autoconf's configure-script when using things like --with-package=/ which might lead ./configure to look for //include/test.h but than it's configure's fault, not cygwin's (i know that i could say --with-package=/. :-) ) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/