On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:55:29AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com> >Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 10:22 AM >Subject: Re: [Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives > >>Well, that was kinda my point. If we can't remove the "//" handling >>because it breaks bash then adding opendir/readdir stuff seems >>premature except for the case of ls //foo which is entirely different >>from ls //. > >Sigh. We need a bash maintainer. We need to have // working for mkdir >-p to work, from what I understand of the code snippet that was sent to >the list.
I thought that Eric Blake implied that // *had* to be translated to /, as per POSIX. I wonder how many programs out there translate a standalone '//' to '/'. cgf
