Same behaviour here -- and I have "no"
distribution -- just the pure kernel
from Linus' source and the utilities
mentioned in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes.
BASH shows '//' in the prompt also...
Really strange...
Bug?
KEEP HACKING!
meino
On 22-Sep-97 htw6966@htw-dresden.de wrote:
> Michael Driscoll wrote:
>>I just noticed some strange behaviour on my system.
>>
>>If I type 'cd /', then I end up in /, nothing strange here.
>>If I type 'cd ///' then I end up in /, nothing strange here.
>>However, if I type 'cd //' then I end up in /, but everything
>>(such as 'pwd') thinks I'm in the directory //.
>>
>>I did some more fooling around and realized I could also
>>cd to directories //tmp, //home/fenris, etc. But more than two
>>leading slashes are collapsed. Non-leading slashes are always
>>properly collapsed.
>>
>>Could this be a special case that is handled wrong in the new
>>fs code I've heard so much about?
>>
>>The root partition is ext2, btw.
>>
>>Linux ulfheim.frob.ml.org 2.1.56 #1 Sat Sep 20 16:17:34 MDT 1997 i586 unknown
>>
>
> 2.1.40 doesn't show this behavior (root: /dev/hdb2, ext2) - perhaps occured
> in
> versions between or is Distribution dependent (I use a new Kernel on SuSE
> Linux
> 4.4)
> uname: Linux main 2.1.40 #5 Sat May 31 15:01:22 MEST 1997 i586
>
> Konrad
>
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