Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/find
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/21/2005 09:10:58
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:42:56AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:15:07PM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:34:45PM -0400, Jed Davis wrote:
> > > Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org> writes:
> > >=20
> > > > Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> And there is surely a POSIX Rule
> > > >> that says so aswell.=20
> > > >
> > > > Can you quote the POSIX "rule" that says so?
> > >=20
> > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html
> > > doesn't seem to say anything about slashes or canonicalization.
> >=20
> > Probably wouldn't be in that section anyways. It's (find) referring to =
dealing
> > with pathnames and printing of said pathnames. The more general sections
> > on pathnames in general will have anything about trailing slashes and u=
ses.
>=20
> IIRC there is mention of double slashes having an implementation dependant
> behaviour, but probably only initial ones.

Indeed.  See:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989799/xbd/glossary.html#tag_004_00=
0_196

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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