Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752383Ab1BJSRf (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:17:35 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18169 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750820Ab1BJSRe (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:17:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Andries Brouwer X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linasvepstas@gmail.com, Chris Metcalf , GLIBC Devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-ports@sourceware.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Mike Frysinger Subject: Re: [BUG] Generic syscalls -- chmod vs. fchmodat In-Reply-To: Andries Brouwer's message of Thursday, 10 February 2011 19:12:21 +0100 <20110210181221.GA19413@win.tue.nl> References: <201101251529.24779.arnd@arndb.de> <20110125174515.C1DC2183C19@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20110210181221.GA19413@win.tue.nl> X-Windows: more than enough rope. Message-Id: <20110210181720.475EE1806EE@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:17:20 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 20 > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/