On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:03:32AM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: > Corinna Vinschen said: > > You can now list servers in the machine's domain/workgroup with > > > > $ ls // > > Since some (most?) Unix shells have a "convenience feature" to reinterpret > multiple forward slashes as a single slash, could this behavior break > existing scripts or makefiles? > > Also, there is a strange discrepancy in how the current (non-snapshot) > version of Cygwin 1.5.16-1 handles multiple forward slashes. I compared it's > handling of some 'ls' commands to that of bash on Linux RHAS 2.1. > > When listing '/', all the following commands work the same on both systems: > 1. ls / > 2. ls // > 3. ls /// > 4. ls //// > > However, when listing a directory under '/', command #2 behaves differently > in Cygwin: > 1. ls /etc > 2. ls //etc (* - fails only on Cygwin, see below) > 3. ls ///etc > 4. ls ////etc
This is per the Single Unix Specification; three or more slashes are required to be equivalent to one slash, while two slashes are explicitly reserved for operating system dependent behaviour (in cygwin's case, //server). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
