Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:17:06 +0200 From: Hartmut Brandt <harti@freebsd.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proposed bsdlabel patch Message-ID: <40692D02.5090700@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040330080250.GA69610@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20040329163926.A38109@xorpc.icir.org> <20040330005013.GA53546@ns1.xcllnt.net> <20040329230643.B70930@xorpc.icir.org> <20040329234212.A72990@xorpc.icir.org> <20040330080250.GA69610@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:42:12PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
>>actually, following up to myself:
>>
>>you do need some way to disambiguate between the case of a device
>>("bsdlabel ad0") and a file in the current directory ("bdslabel
>>ad0").
>
>
> The file takes precedence, because any filename that does not contain
> any directory elements is assumed to live in the current directory. The
> shorthand for device special files is secundairy to that, because it's
> a convenience only. If the device special file is meant, it has to be
> specified as /dev/ad0 in the example given.
>
That makes it very easy to trash a file in the current directory.
harti
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