Previously Tres Seaver wrote: > Zope2 uses them at the beginning of a path to indicate traversal from > the root. -1 to dropping that case (it is the one which makes > '/foo/bar' behave orthagonally). Havinng blank elements work as no-ops > also makes them behave predictably: this is what command shells (sane > ones, anyway) do with them. E.g.: > > $ ls /path/to//foo > > yiels the same results as: > > $ ls /path/to/foo
That actually does not need to be true and POSIX does not dictate that. There have been some discussions to use // as a marker for a different kind of traversal for some filesystems. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
