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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:52:40AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> writes:
>
> > I guess we could snip away a trailing slash. How about filesystems
> > with-non-slash element separators, any experience/opinions, anyone?
>
> It may also be worthwhile to check POSIX and see what it says mkdir should
> do in this case. I know that POSIX (or maybe it was X/Open) actually has
> a lot of stuff in it about what a trailing slash on a file name means and
> it's supposed to change the behavior of various commands in sometimes
> interesting and unintuitive ways.
Checking POSIX is a good thing, and it usually pays to stick with
standards, but that shouldn't be our only guideline. There wasn't
any standard for Larry to design Perl.
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