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Re: [BUG] Generic syscalls -- chmod vs. fchmodat


> 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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