Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:26:23 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: tcsh.cat Message-ID: <200106181826.f5IIQNh09266@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> of "Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:53:10 EDT." <200106151953.PAA25655@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:33:07 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:
>
> > Here's an example of a complication: what is the semantics of /tmp/foo/bar
> > where foo is a symlink to ""? I think the pathname resolves to
> > /tmp//bar and then to /tmp/bar, but this is surprising since foo doesn't
> > point anywhere.
>
> But this is at least consistent with the historic (pre-POSIX) behavior
> where the filename "" is equivalent to ".".
Your spell checker didn't seem to catch your mis-spelling of hysteric :I
> -GAWollman
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