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Author mkc
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Date 2005-09-28.19:11:01
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Nonetheless, keeping an initial double slash renders this
function useless for its expected purpose.  If this cannot
be fixed outright, could be add a flag (with doc) to provide
the expected behavior (i.e., squish all multiple slash
sequences)?

This document (link below) says "Application developers
should avoid generating pathnames that start with "//".
Implementations are strongly encouraged to avoid using this
special interpretation..."

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:DY5cJbmtg7QJ:www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/xrat/xbd_chap04.html+posix+path+double+initial+slash&hl=en
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