[BUG] Generic syscalls -- chmod vs. fchmodat
Roland McGrath
roland@redhat.com
Thu Feb 10 18:18:00 GMT 2011
> 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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