Re: [patch] acgeneral.m4 (dirname usage)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  6, 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If a path starts by a double '/' (that is for any UNC path, quite often
> found on DOS boxes), we will strip one of these leading '/'

Nope.  We'll only do it if we're given `//server00', for example; this
will become `/'.  For `//server00/foo', we'll get the expected
`//server00'.  IMO, it's not worth the trouble to try to handle the
`//foo' -> `//foo' case.

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