GNU bug report logs - #57102
29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, philipk <at> posteo.net, 57102 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org,
 stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#57102: 29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:02:29 -0400

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  > > There's the Posix peculiarity that /abc and //abc are potentially 
  > > distinct, but ///abc should be equivalent to /abc if I understood it 
  > > right.

We don't have to handle them that way in Emacs,
Emacs has its own rules about what double slashes mean.

In the GNU Project we do not "obey" standards such as POSIX -- we
follow them when that seems good for users, and we diverge from them
when there is a reason to.

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