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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


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