On Wednesday 14 February 2007 07:37, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We could prepend another '/' (so that you'd have a path that starts with > "//"). That's still a legal path, but it's also somethign that even POSIX > says is valid to mean something else (eg "//ftp/.." or "//socket/.." to > escape into another namespace). This sounds good enough to me. My main point is that users that care should be able to tell the difference. Thanks, Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html