Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:53:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcsh.cat Message-ID: <200106151953.PAA25655@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106152325320.84795-100000@besplex.bde.org> References: <200106151308.OAA07742@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106152325320.84795-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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<<On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:33:07 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> 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 ".". -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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