RFS vs. NFS (turned into "//" (super-root) discussion)

[Doug McCallum]

In article <1990Sep1.181027.20989 at mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dstailey at gnu.ai.mit.edu (Doug Stailey) writes:
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>POSIX says that multiple slashes collapse into one slash, so standards
>are on your side too.  Apollo's Domain OS is the first place that I

Actually, POSIX doesn't quite say this.  It says that a single slash is
the root, two slashes may be interpreted in an implementation dependent manner
and that three or more slashes collapse to the same as one.

As much as I think it is a bad idea, the standards allow it.

Doug McCallum
Interactive Systems Corp.
dougm at ico.isc.com