From: jazz AT softway DOT com (Jason Zions)
Subject: Re: Picking up include directories automatically
17 May 1997 01:11:58 -0700
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Actually, using a doubled-slash is indeed POSIX; a leading double-slash
in a pathname is explicitly called out as implementation-defined, and a
portable application should (a) deal with it without blowing up, and (b)
not ascribe any particular meaning to it. If anyone is interested, I can
get a specific chapter-and-verse citation.

The OpenNT POSIX-conforming environment for NT uses
//<driveletter>/<path> consistently, with very few (if any) source
changes required to publicly-available code. Once the
tmpdir()/tmpnam()/tempnam() functions are modified to "do the right
thing", most apps simply need slight changes to environment variables or
compile-time #defines to build correctly. Apache, for instance, came up
quite easily under OpenNT 2.0alpha and 2.0beta.

Disclosure: I work for Softway Systems, maker of OpenNT.

Jason Zions
http://www.softway.com
(email address diddled to prevent spamming)

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