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Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:39:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
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On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 9 07:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> > Hmm, while I'm at it, "dirname //" should return //, not /.
>
> No. // is a perfectly valid root dir in a system which differs between
> / and //. Let dirname(1) just use what it gets from dirname(3).
Looks to me like you're in violent agreement here...
Igor
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