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authorjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2022-10-04 16:01:57 (GMT)
committerjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2022-10-04 16:01:57 (GMT)
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@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ absolute, and file names may contain any character other than slash.
The file names \fB\&.\fR and \fB\&..\fR are special and refer to the
current directory and the parent of the current directory respectively.
Multiple adjacent slash characters are interpreted as a single
-separator. Any number of trailing slash characters at the end of a
+separator, except for the first double slash \fB//\fR in absolute paths.
+Any number of trailing slash characters at the end of a
path are simply ignored, so the paths \fBfoo\fR, \fBfoo/\fR and
\fBfoo//\fR are all identical, and in particular \fBfoo/\fR does not
necessarily mean a directory is being referred.