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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To: Hartmut Brandt <harti@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:17:06AM +0200, Hartmut Brandt wrote:
> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
...
> > 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.

it may be secondary, but it has been the historical behaviour for
ages and I don't want to hear people rightly screaming for a change
that broke a huge number of existing scripts.

> That makes it very easy to trash a file in the current directory.

that is a minor concern. "rm" has the same problem :)

cheers
luigi