On 23 March 2011 05:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Btw., did you notice the mail on the cygwin list reporting the problems > mksh has using paths with two leading slashes? If mksh folds two > slashes into one, then this is not POSIX compatible, see (*): > > "A pathname consisting of a single <slash> shall resolve to the root > directory of the process. [...] A pathname that begins with two > successive <slash> characters may be interpreted in an implementation- > defined manner, although more than two leading <slash> characters shall > be treated as a single <slash> character."
Yes, I'm going to follow-up on the mksh mailing list to get some feedback from upstream. Worse case I'll see what I can do in terms of creating a local patch to support it correctly. Cheers, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d