Changeset 9a6d32b in rtems

Timestamp:

06/11/99 13:35:07 (24 years ago)

Author:

Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@…>

Branches:

4.10, 4.11, 4.8, 4.9, 5, master

Children:

0643693

Parents:

5a0592c

Message:

Added information on pathname evaluation.

File:

• doc/posix_users/files.t (modified) (1 diff)

doc/posix_users/files.t

@@ -52 +52 @@
 @section Background
 
-There is currently no text in this section.
+@subsection Path Name Evaluation
+
+A pathname is a string that consists of no more than @code{PATH_MAX}
+bytes, including the terminating null character.  A pathname has an optional
+beginning slash, followed by zero or more filenames separated by slashes.  
+If the pathname refers to a directory, it may also have one or more trailing
+slashes.  Multiple successive slahes are considered to be the same as
+one slash.  
+
+POSIX allows a pathname that begins with precisely two successive slashes to be
+interpreted in an implementation-defined manner.  RTEMS does not currently
+recognize this as a special condition.  Any number of successive 
+slashes is treated the same as a single slash.   POSIX requires that
+an implementation treat more than two leading slashes as a single slash.
 
 @section Operations