Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:57:56 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Adrian Browne <Adrian@nu-earth.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcsh.cat Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106152249470.84573-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010615160248.A16012@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 13:15:04 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > Related bugs: > > - symlink(2) is happy to create a symlink to the empty pathname although > > empty pathnames are invalid. > > Maybe we need to fix symlink(2) then ? Maybe, but this doesn't seem to be permitted by POSIX.1-200x: P> int symlink(const char *path1, const char *path2); P> ... P> The string pointed to by path1 shall be treated only as a character P> string and shall not be validated as a pathname. symlink.2 is fuzzier and can be read as reqiring that the first arg is a (valid) "path name". B> int B> symlink(const char *name1, const char *name2); B> ... B> A symbolic link name2 is created to name1 (name2 is the name of the file B> created, name1 is the string used in creating the symbolic link). Either B> name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need not be on the same B> file system. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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