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Expand Up @@ -361,6 +361,14 @@ instance of the platform-specific path segment separator (`/` on POSIX and
If the `path` is a zero-length string, `'.'` is returned, representing the
current working directory.

On POSIX, the types of normalization applied by this function do not strictly
adhere to the POSIX specification. For example, this function will replace two
leading forward slashes with a single slash as if it was a regular absolute
path, whereas a few POSIX systems assign special meaning to paths beginning with
exactly two forward slashes. Similarly, other substitutions performed by this
function, such as removing `..` segments, may change how the underlying system
resolves the path.

For example, on POSIX:

```js
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