On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 22:59 UTC, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> wrote: > At Thursday 15 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> No, the patch should not modify initial double slash, that is not >> the same as a single slash in general. > Why?
I hope it's not rude for me to dive in from a lurking position. The "Why?" is ambiguous, but I can address the assumed question "why is initial double slash not the same as a single slash in general?" There are likely systems out there where /a/path/to/file is equivalent to //a/path/to/file but on some systems the two refer to different namespaces, with //a/path/to/file being a reference to file "file" in directory "to" on share "path" of fileserver "a". That is, just like \\a\path\to\file would be interpreted by Windows' networking. Cheers, Dave Hart
