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From:	=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
Subject:	Re: paths like //usr/local
Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:01:19 +0200
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> To quote from the Single Unix Specification v3:
> 
> "A pathname consisting of a single slash shall resolve to the root
> directory of the process.  A null pathname shall not be successfully
> resolved.  A pathname that begins with two successive slashes may be
> interpreted in an implementation-defined manner, although more than two
> leading slashes shall be treated as a single slash."

damn - who wrote that spec?

i might think of autoconf's configure-script when using things like 
--with-package=/ which might lead ./configure to look for //include/test.h

but than it's configure's fault, not cygwin's
(i know that i could say --with-package=/.  :-) )




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