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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>,
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Subject: Re: for the brave
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:14:13 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:13 PM
Subject: RE: for the brave


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> > [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson
>
> [snip]
>
> > the concat call prepended "file://" with two more '/' chars
> >
> >
> > 2+2 = 4
> >
> > So why does the resulting filespec have only 3 '/' chars?  Somewhere
> > along the line, I don't know where, the local_dir I entered is
having
> > one of its leading '/' stripped...
> >
>
> I think concat() itself is doing that, in an attempt to canonicalize
the paths
> while it creates them.

Well I can't duplicate it :}. I have a somewhat different source base
though, so I'll try and commit that in the next coupla  hours.

Rob