* Vincent Lefevre:
> On 2019-06-26 18:40:50 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Perhaps the coreutils manual could be improved to make this all clearer, and
>> perhaps it should refer to the Debian manual if it doesn't already.
>
> In this case, there should be a new ordering option to provide
> true
On 6/28/19 12:47 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> I don't recall reading anything about posix allowing the elimination
> of such paths.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html
4.13:
"If a pathname begins with two successive characters, the first
component following the
I don't recall reading anything about posix allowing the elimination
of such paths.
If I have an application layer on top of linux that processes those
double slashes, it may or may not work depending on the underlying OS?
That wouldn't be very portable w/r/t a Portable OS Information eXchange
realpath -m //sysname/rootdir/.
returns "/sysname/rootdir" This is incorrect, according to POSIX.
and #3-4 have specific meanings in various applications that in usage.
1) leading double slashes are to be preserved
My Notes: in combining paths like pathcat(//, sys, /a) =>
should get
