[PLUG] Found a strange file node on my Linux System

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Jun 10 00:19:25 UTC 2006


On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote:

> 	I was navigating my system today and instead of typing in "cd /", I typed
> in "cd //". Much to my suprise, I went to a directory called '//'. It's
> contents seem to be the same as that of the root directory, but I find the
> two backslashes to be quite weird. Can anybody replicate this behavior on
> their system and/or tell me more about this "Double-root" directory?

   They're foreward slashes, not backslashs, and on my box typing 'ls //'
shows the contents of the root directory.

Rich

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