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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linasvepstas@gmail.com,
	       Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
	       GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,        libc-ports@sourceware.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	       Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Generic syscalls -- chmod vs. fchmodat
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110210181720.475EE1806EE@magilla.sf.frob.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andries Brouwer's message of  Thursday, 10 February 2011 19:12:21 +0100 <20110210181221.GA19413@win.tue.nl>

> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-10 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-24 21:05 Linas Vepstas
2011-01-24 21:32 ` Roland McGrath
2011-01-25 12:20   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-01-25 17:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 17:59   ` Roland McGrath
2011-01-25 18:34     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 18:54       ` Roland McGrath
2011-01-25 20:31         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-01-25 19:56       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-01-25 20:05         ` Eric Blake
2011-01-25 20:50           ` Eric Blake
2011-01-25 22:11             ` Eric Blake
2011-01-26  3:31               ` Linas Vepstas
2011-02-10 18:12     ` Andries Brouwer
2011-02-10 18:17       ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2011-02-11  9:12       ` Andreas Schwab

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