From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 17 12:15: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2EDD37B407 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f5HJEND63431; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:14:23 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:14:19 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, imp@harmony.village.org, steveo@eircom.net, david@catwhisker.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] Message-ID: <20010617231418.A60728@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200106170518.f5H5I6V44586@harmony.village.org> <20010617113141A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010617113141A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:31:41AM -0700 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 On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:31:41 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > It seems your argument to disallow null symlinks got somehow taken > as an argument to disallow all "invalid" symlinks then. To say it more clear: now I even not against ""-symlinks making ability, such strings are valid per POSIX after all, as already noticed in this discussion. I am against _resolving_ them to illegal "" name (and to "." in pathnames) which cause all errors that Bruce describe. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message