Re: interesting behaviour (2.1.56)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
22 Sep 1997 18:10:02 GMT

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Followup to: <XFMail.970922170135.root@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de>
By author: Meino Christian Cramer <root@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de>
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>
> Hi!
>
> Same behaviour here -- and I have "no"
> distribution -- just the pure kernel
> from Linus' source and the utilities
> mentioned in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes.
> BASH shows '//' in the prompt also...
>
> Really strange...
>
> Bug?
>

Nope... this is just bash (pwd is a bash internal!) complying with the
POSIX standard, which allows systems to use a leading // [exactly two
slashes] as an escape to another filename space.

-hpa

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