On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:34:28 -0500 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 1/30/24 10:29 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: > > >>> I'm not sure that this is accurate. In my testing, bash does not even > >>> perform this canonicalization step, which is optional to begin with. That > >>> is, it states that "an implementation may" canonicalize in the manner > >>> described, and prescribes a course of action to take if - and only if - > >>> such canonicalization is performed. > >> > >> It does. Try `cd /usr/////////bin' and see what ends up in $PWD. > > > > Thanks. I doubted myself on this point upon reading your response to my > > last bug report (in which you spoke of canonicalization). I was certain > > that it was not material to the behaviour under discussion in this thread, > > though. > > It's not, really, since the operand is "" and $PWD won't contain multiple > slashes. I said "it was not". -- Kerin Millar
