[Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:29:38PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>>I thought that Eric Blake implied that // *had* to be translated to /,
>>as per POSIX.  I wonder how many programs out there translate a
>>standalone '//' to '/'.
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>No, POSIX requires that / be untouched, // be implementation-defined
>(hint - - define it on cygwin to stay untouched), and /// translate to
>/.

Ok.  I knew that but I misinterpreted something you said as implying
that '//' was not implementation defined.  This was just a misreading
on my part, though.

cgf