change dir to //

[john wendel]

On 01/16/2011 04:13 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> 2011/1/17 Andre Robatino<robatino at fedoraproject.org>:
>> Well, apparently it's deliberate behavior (not a bug). See this from 2005:
>>
>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2005-December/057882.html
>
> Fair enough
>
> at least
> ls /././/./\./\../\/..\/
> works and AFAICS doesn't crash anything.
>

In my job as a programmer, I maintain a very old app that actually 
depends on "//" in pathnames behaving the same as "/". The "//" triggers 
some special app behavior while still being a valid pathanme when passed 
to the kernel filesystem. It works this way on Linux, Solaris, AIX, and 
SGI boxes.

Regards,

JOhn