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Re: paths are sensative to double separators
From: |
Byung-Hee HWANG |
Subject: |
Re: paths are sensative to double separators |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:59:21 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) |
Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:50:37 -0700, xah lee <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Not really, no:
>
> address@hidden:/home/keramida$ cd /etc//security
> address@hidden:/etc/security$ pwd
> /etc/security
SunOS's screenshot:
$ uname -a
SunOS rose0 5.9 Generic_122300-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
$ pwd
/user2/hak/z9618029
$ cd /etc//security
$ pwd
/etc/security
$
> Having said that, I see that a double slash in find-file's prompt starts
> over from the filesystem root. That's slightly annoying when trying to
> open a filename with double slashes, but it's also helpful when one
> really *wants* to start over from the root of the filesystem :/
Sincerely,
--
Byung-Hee HWANG, KNU
∑ WWW: http://izb.knu.ac.kr/~bh/
- Re: paths are sensative to double separators, (continued)
- Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/03/21
- Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Giorgos Keramidas, 2009/03/21
- Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/03/20
- Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/20
- Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/19
- Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Giorgos Keramidas, 2009/03/19
- Re: paths are sensative to double separators,
Byung-Hee HWANG <=
Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Miles Bader, 2009/03/18
Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Sebastian Rose, 2009/03/19
Re: paths are sensative to double separators, Xavier Maillard, 2009/03/19