> 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-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
