lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2011]   [Feb]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [BUG] Generic syscalls -- chmod vs. fchmodat
Date
> 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


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2011-02-10 19:19    [W:0.080 / U:27.032 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site