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<td><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - Multiple slash handling in Unix directory code wrong"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107968">107968</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Multiple slash handling in Unix directory code wrong
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>Inherited From OOo
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>chris.sherlock79@gmail.com
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<pre>It appears that in the OSL code that we do some sanity checking for Unix system
paths and converts double slashes (//) to a single slash. This is actually
correct behaviour (except for beginning with double slashes - see <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_UNCONFIRMED "
title="UNCONFIRMED - System path on Unix starting with double-slashes converted to single slash"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=107967">bug 107967</a>),
but we haven't quite got this behaviour correct.
POSIX actually doesn't mandate double-slashes be replaced by a single slash, it
actually states that multiple slashes should be replaced with a single slash
when parsing a system directory. We currently only check if there is a
double-slash, which means that /path//to/file.txt becomes /path/to/file.txt but
/path////to/file.txt becomes /path//to/file.txt
This shouldn't cause too many issues, however it causes us to also make
////path/to/file.txt to change to //path/to/file.txt instead of
/path/to/file.txt - and that *is* wrong and problematic behaviour because POSIX
treats a leading double-slash specially.</pre>
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