On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 03:43:02PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: > POSIX allows implementations to define the behavior of 'basename //' and > 'dirname //'. Currently, both operations in coreutils output a single /, but > this definition is worthless on platforms (like cygwin) where // is distinct > from /. The intent, according to POSIX, is that 'cd $(dirname "string") > && stat $(basename "string")' access the same file as 'stat "string"' > would do.
Might this also be a problem for mkdir? And perhaps cp? David _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
