From @raydiak

perl6 -e 'say dir "/"'

gives

"//opt".IO "//home".IO ...

Haven't noticed doubling slashes in any situations besides '/' so far

This is perl6 version 2014.11-30-gac27d2f built on MoarVM version 2014.11-45-ge1016ad

From @usev6

This was fixed by lizmat++ with commit rakudo/rakudo@482cc32e89

$ perl6 -e 'say dir "/"'
"/.snap".IO "/dev".IO "/tmp".IO ...

But I wonder if the following test would work on Windows also​:

$ PERL6LIB=lib ./perl6 -e 'use Test; my $res = dir "/"; ok $res !~~ m/ "/" ** 2 /, "dir \"/\" results do not begin with two slashes"'
ok 1 - dir "/" results do not begin with two slashes

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From @lizmat

On 28 Nov 2014, at 22​:00, Christian Bartolomaeus via RT <bugs-comment@​bugs6.perl.org> wrote​:

This was fixed by lizmat++ with commit rakudo/rakudo@482cc32e89

$ perl6 -e 'say dir "/"'
"/.snap".IO "/dev".IO "/tmp".IO ...

But I wonder if the following test would work on Windows also​:

$ PERL6LIB=lib ./perl6 -e 'use Test; my $res = dir "/"; ok $res !~~ m/ "/" ** 2 /, "dir \"/\" results do not begin with two slashes"'
ok 1 - dir "/" results do not begin with two slashes

FWIW, I hope to be able to merge the newio branch before the end of the Patch -p2 hackathon. This will introduce a new set of fixes and possibly new breakage not spotted by the spectests (yet).

Liz

From @usev6

I added a test to S32-io/dir.t with commit Raku/roast@29d41333b2.

I'm closing this ticket as 'resolved'.

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