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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> No, the empty pathname has been invalid and not an alias for "." since at
> least the first version of POSIX.

That's the same time they broke signal restart and file
locks, right?

-- Terry

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