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On 20/05/2013 7:19 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 11:29 +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
>> -		TNAME=${ROOT_DIR}/${TNAME}
>> +		TNAME=`echo ${ROOT_DIR}/${TNAME} | sed -e 's@^//*@/@'`
> Why is this a good thing?  Your commit message is rather terse.
>
> p.
It reduces the size of /etc/volatile.cache.
Otherwise for example if you have ROOT_DIR=/, TNAME=/var/log, TNAME 
becomes ///var/log.
Also if you have verbose mode enabled it actually prints out the extra 
unnecessary leading slashes.

Regards,
Jonathan