[Python-Dev] problems building Python 2.1a1 on QNX 4.25

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > revision 1.34
> > date: 2000/07/19 17:09:51;  author: montanaro;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -23
> > added rewritten normpath from Moshe Zadka that does the right thing with
> > paths containing ..
> [...]
> > Revision 1.33 clearly leaves initial slashes untouched.
> > I guess we should restore this...
> 
> Yes, please!  (Just the "leading extra slashes stay" behavior.)

Checked in a patch which preserves '/' and '//' but converts
more than 3 initial slashes into one (see Fredrik's note about
POSIX standard on this).

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