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Re: gmake is slow under cygwin
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: gmake is slow under cygwin
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:26:30 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:15:52AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
>On 27-Sep-2000, Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>> AFAIK, it's not improper to treat two leading slashes as "special" anyway.
>
>I thought I had heard that one of the POSIX standards (ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990,
>I think) prohibited that?
>
>Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the relevant standard on hand to
>check it.
Searching opengroup.org, I came across this:
"A path name that begins with two successive slashes may be
interpreted in an implementation-dependent manner,
although more than two leading slashes shall be treated as a
single slash."
I don't have a specific reference, unfortunately.
cgf
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