On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:12:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > BTW, I have a procedural question regarding this. I have a 1-line patch > to fix this in the current fileutils source. However, fileutils is not > maintained, and the problem (generating filenames with the '//' prefix) > affects only Cygwin, so it's unlikely to be accepted upstream, and will > have to be part of a Cygwin-specific patch. > Igor, I believe that the // prefix has special meaning in Posix. All I could find in a few minutes was the last paragraph in the "Pathname Resolution" section of http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm So the upstream maintainer should care.
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