From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 18 11:26:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059C837B406 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f5IIQOF14051; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:26:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f5IIQNh09266; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:26:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200106181826.f5IIQNh09266@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: tcsh.cat In-Reply-To: Message from Garrett Wollman of "Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:53:10 EDT." <200106151953.PAA25655@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:26:23 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > < 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message