cd with double slash hangs forever on Mac OS X Terminal

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If I type cd // on the Mac OS X Terminal (Version 2.6.1 (361.1)), the prompt hangs forever. Why?

Curiously that doesn't happen if I do cd / or cd ///.

I am using El Captain with the bash that comes by default, that is GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15)

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asked May 25, 2016 at 13:05

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Related: unix.stackexchange.com/a/1919/3929
– Ulrich Schwarz
Commented May 25, 2016 at 14:27
and related to superuser.com/questions/401593/why-is-there-a-directory
– Giacomo Catenazzi
Commented May 25, 2016 at 14:29
What shell? Neither the default ZSH nor the default bash hang on a cd // for me.
– thrig
Commented May 25, 2016 at 14:32
@thrig read the last line of my post :)
– Alessandro Cosentino
Commented May 25, 2016 at 15:40
Possibly related: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/256497/…
– Kusalananda ♦
Commented Feb 5, 2018 at 21:14

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