Re: Sendmail fixkit

[jfh () rpp386 cactus org (John F. Haugh II)]

> > Dont think so..  Lets say that ./foo is a valid directory..  Then
> > foo// would be the same as /    (correct????)
>
> Nope. Same as "./foo". Repeated slashes are counted as a single slash. At
> least on the versions of UNIX that I have played around with, the empty
> string is the same as ".", so foo// is the same as foo/./, which of
> course is the same as ./foo

On old versions of UNIX "" was the same as ".".  On newer versions the
extra /'s are just skipped over.  They don't have any special meaning.
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