On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:14 PM, yuyichao-mit <yuyichao@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The problem is like this: > > $ cd / > $ pwd > / > > $ cd / > $ pwd > // > > $ cd /// > $ pwd > / > > Why can there be a extra slash (and exactly one) in current path? Is > this designed on purpose? > This is not really a big deal but I think it can confuse some program. Multiple consecutive slashes should not confuse any program. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_266 --alessandro "There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck" (Radiohead, "There There") -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
