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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:26:30 -0400
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Subject:	Re: gmake is slow under cygwin
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In-Reply-To:	<20001004011551.B9274@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU>; from fjh@cs.mu.oz.au on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:15:52AM +1100

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:15:52AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
>On 27-Sep-2000, Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>> AFAIK, it's not improper to treat two leading slashes as "special" anyway.
>
>I thought I had heard that one of the POSIX standards (ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990,
>I think) prohibited that?
>
>Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the relevant standard on hand to
>check it.

Searching opengroup.org, I came across this:

 "A path name that begins with two successive slashes may be
 interpreted in an implementation-dependent manner,
 although more than two leading slashes shall be treated as a
 single slash."

I don't have a specific reference, unfortunately.

cgf

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