Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland McGrath <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] Generic syscalls -- chmod vs. fchmodat | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:17:20 -0800 (PST) |
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> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:45:15AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > the empty string has never been a valid relative pathname. > > Hmm. I definitely recall otherwise. > > The old Unix definition is that the empty string stands for "." > so that 'ls ""' means the same as 'ls .' > and 'ls /tmp/""' the same as 'ls /tmp/.'.
I'm aware of that. I was talking about Linux and POSIX.
Thanks, Roland
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