Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] Trailing /
Date: Sunday, 13 Sep 2020, 10:06:55

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    >    * Preserve trailing /'s in filenames that appear on the command line.
    > E.g.,
    >
    >        % fiend .//// -maxdepth 0
    >        .////
    >
    > I am not sure what do these /'s mean and why there is a need to preserve
    > them. It seems like though I haven't coded anything particularly for that,
    > /'s are already preserved.

Extra /'s at the end of a filename are ignored when
associating the filename with an inode.

They need to be preserved to match the behavior of
/bin/find.

--Stan-