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Re: "+/" with Mailutils


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: "+/" with Mailutils
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 13:12:06 +0100
User-agent: MH (GNU Mailutils 3.13.90)

Stephen Gildea <stepheng+mh-e@gildea.com> ha escrit:

> To my eyes, "/bin" looks better than "//bin", but maybe I don't
> understand the semantics of an MH folder name.
> 
> So which "folders" output is correct, mailutils or nmh?  If mailutils
> is correct, we can fix MH-E to deal with the correct answer.

With my mailutils maintainer hat off, I believe that *one* slash is
correct.  POSIX states that the interpretation of two initial slashes is
implementation-dependent, which convinces me that generating such paths
is a bad idea.

Best regards,
Sergey



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