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[Doug Gwyn]

In article <5615 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Hmmm...as I understand it, this disallows pathnames of the form
>"//filename" and is ambiguous about pathnames of the form
>"filename//filename".

The first form has special meaning in some network-extended implementations.

A null path component is not accepted by UNIX System V, as I recall.

>This is not very UNIX-like.

Hey, these days UNIX isn't very UNIX-like.