RFU: mksh-39c-2

[Chris Sutcliffe]

On 23 March 2011 05:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Btw., did you notice the mail on the cygwin list reporting the problems
> mksh has using paths with two leading slashes?  If mksh folds two
> slashes into one, then this is not POSIX compatible, see (*):
>
>  "A pathname consisting of a single <slash> shall resolve to the root
>   directory of the process. [...]  A pathname that begins with two
>   successive <slash> characters may be interpreted in an implementation-
>   defined manner, although more than two leading <slash> characters shall
>   be treated as a single <slash> character."

Yes, I'm going to follow-up on the mksh mailing list to get some
feedback from upstream.  Worse case I'll see what I can do in terms of
creating a local patch to support it correctly.

Cheers,

Chris

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