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From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:
> > > Here's an example of a standard utility being clueless about symlinks to
> > > nothing:
> > >
> > >     $ ln -s '' foo
> > >     $ cp foo bar
> > >     cp: foo is a directory (not copied)
> > >
> > > foo is certainly not a directory.  The bug seems to be in fts.
> >
> > No, "foo" certainly _is_ a directory.  It is precisely the same thing as
> > ".".
> 
> No, the empty pathname has been invalid and not an alias for "." since at
> least the first version of POSIX.

I didn't read the rest of the thread til later ;)  The fact remains that 
FreeBSD interprets it as such in namei(), and is it not an undefined 
behavior according to POSIX?

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