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 Subject: RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis From: Robert Collins To: "linda w (cyg)" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, perl5-porters@perl.org In-Reply-To: <002d01c2b785$6b5681c0$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> References: <002d01c2b785$6b5681c0$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YaqwWEqVPLV5RHMhnPAy" Organization: Message-Id: <1042079397.1908.215.camel@lifelesslap> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 09 Jan 2003 13:29:58 +1100 --=-YaqwWEqVPLV5RHMhnPAy Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry for butting in again, but you have a factual error that needs highlighting. On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:18, linda w (cyg) wrote: > > Understanding that double slashes at the > > beginning of a path are special is good sense for any=20 > > portable program. > --- > There you go again, making relative assertions about "good/bad" > again. It's common practice to define a $(ROOT)/foobar underwhich to > build or install a program. It is common to have ROOT=3D/ when you want > to install it on a live machine. It is *expected* that double slashes > "//" will be treated as "/". Thinking "//" is special only shows the > corrupting influence Win32 has had on your thinking. If you grew up > on unix, you'd know that "//" =3D "/". Whoa. POSIX uses // as a imeplementation specific prefix for network paths. The posix 'dirname' algorithm EXPLICITLY leaves the use of // as implementation specific. Go check it up you want proof. Growing up on unix does NOT mean // =3D=3D /. If you assume that *anywhere* you will limit your programs portability (specifically, you are IMMEDIATELY non-posix). > Dogma is an anesthetization of "critical thinking". Just curious, if that is the case, why do you make vehement assertions of your own? Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-YaqwWEqVPLV5RHMhnPAy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+HN6lI5+kQ8LJcoIRAgREAKDUikDEktr9W2A9jEb8501xEWQ46gCfQ3jY MwlHECRe6co+p4psTd+s/aQ= =pvJx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YaqwWEqVPLV5RHMhnPAy--