From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 08:00:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * makepath.c (make_path): chdir to "//", not "/", if the file name
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* makepath.c (make_path): chdir to "//", not "/", if the file name
starts with exactly two slashes.
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diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
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--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2005-05-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	* makepath.c (make_path): chdir to "//", not "/", if the file name
+	starts with exactly two slashes.  This doesn't solve the problem
+	in general but it's better than nothing.  Problem reported by
+	Pierre A. Humblet via Eric Blake.
+
 2005-05-01  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	* modechange.h (mode_free): Remove; all callers changed to invoke