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Date:      Sun, 1 Dec 1996 19:46:41 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        bde@freefall.freebsd.org (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/kern vfs_lookup.c
Message-ID:  <199612011646.TAA00312@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199612011605.IAA19273@freefall.freebsd.org> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 1, 96 08:05:53 am"

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> bde         96/12/01 08:05:52
> 
>   Modified:    sys/kern  vfs_lookup.c
>   Log:
>   Don't allow empty pathnames.  POSIX standard.
>   
>   Most of the standard utilities that depended on (or were broken in
>   a different way by) the old behaviour of interpreting "" as "."
>   were fixed a year or two ago.  There is still a fairly harmless
>   bug in tar and a harmless bug in gzip.  Tar apparently replaces
>   "/" by "" when it strips leading slashes.

Hurray!

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/



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