On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:37:36 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> wrote:
> And double delimiters *are* ambiguous: > Has a (one letter) file name been forgotten or was an additional > delimiter typed (or appended by bad programmed routines)? Ambiguity is not defined by how the symbol came into being. You just look at the symbol as is. So Mattias statement *is* correct. > I am realy astonished that nobody seems to find anything wrong with this. user@computer:/tmp$ mkdir hans user@computer:/tmp$ mkdir hans////////pete user@computer:/tmp$ cd hans user@computer:/tmp/hans$ ls -la total 12 drwxrwxr-x 3 user user 4096 Sep 11 19:13 . drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 Sep 11 19:13 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Sep 11 19:13 pete Nothing wrong. All fine and dandy. IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/) says: 3.266 Pathname A character string that is used to identify a file. In the context of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, a pathname consists of, at most, {PATH_MAX} bytes, including the terminating null byte. It has an optional beginning slash, followed by zero or more filenames separated by slashes. A pathname may optionally contain one or more trailing slashes. Multiple successive slashes are considered to be the same as one slash. R. Disclaimer: I know that Linux is not Unix and not Posix. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
