On 01/16/2011 04:13 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > 2011/1/17 Andre Robatino<robat...@fedoraproject.org>: >> Well, apparently it's deliberate behavior (not a bug). See this from 2005: >> >> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2005-December/057882.html > > Fair enough > > at least > ls /././/./\./\../\/..\/ > works and AFAICS doesn't crash anything. >
In my job as a programmer, I maintain a very old app that actually depends on "//" in pathnames behaving the same as "/". The "//" triggers some special app behavior while still being a valid pathanme when passed to the kernel filesystem. It works this way on Linux, Solaris, AIX, and SGI boxes. Regards, JOhn -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
