Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/29/1999 08:49:53
Michael Graff writes:
> Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org> writes:
> 
> > - the path is split on `/', and each directory is CWD-ed into separately.
> > (from [standards/7484] by Alan Barrett <apb@iafrica.com>)
> 
> Yipe, won't this break the situation where you have to cwd into a spot
> all at once?  Some servers I use require this...

So, we either pretend we use RFC 1738, or we don't? We're dealing with
URLs here, and only half-supporting them is a bad idea.

That said:
	* whilst per-directory is RFC compliant, I can't think of
	  cases where it really bites
	* ftp host:/some/path/to/file doesn't have this limitation