In article <20020428193403.6D625AC@proven.weird.com>
woods@weird.com wrote:

> Allowing any number of trailing slashes on directory names in all
> positions in all contexts has been a "requirement" of _UNIX_
> compatability since the dawn of UNIX (see John Lions book with the V6
> source and commentary, for example).  Not following this history is,
> IMNSHO, a bad thing, regardless of what one standard or another might
> allow us to get away with, and regardless of what other unix-like
> systems do today.

I'm not sure what you mean as "requirement" of _UNIX_ compatability,
but we cannot support all features of lots of ancient systems anyway.
I guess just NetBSD chooses POSIX for standard of UNIX-like OS.
That's all.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp