Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:26:30 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gmake is slow under cygwin Message-ID: <20001003112630.A24166@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <20000926194812.D6082@cygnus.com> <3644885960.970012527@dsl-64-34-95-237.telocity.com> <20000927002710.A7341@cygnus.com> <20001004011551.B9274@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i 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 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com