On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:40:18PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > BTW, when I said that two slashes are like one, it is true with one > exception. For some strange reason, a pathname that starts with exactly two > (no more, no less) slashes is implementation defined. So you have the whole > //foo/bar namespace... I don't know why this exception was made, probably > for some OS I don't know about. It could be used, but I would be prepared > to fix some scripts etc to not accidentially but a slash too much in the > line.
I know that cygwin uses this convention to handle drive letters. So C:\windows becomes //c/windows, for instance. (/ is a fake root directory, usually in c:\cygwin or something) Daniel - /----------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------\ | After the game, the king and | | the pawn go in the same box. | | -- Italian proverb | \------- Listener-supported public radio -- NPR -- http://www.npr.org --------/
