Hello Jonny, On 9 October 2014 at 13:22, Jonny Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Michael > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/symlink.2.html > > I saw that [linkpath] being the empty string "" also returns ENOENT. I > feel worth clariying: > > Current text: > "ENOENT A directory component in linkpath does not exist or is a > dangling symbolic link, or target is the empty string." > > Proposed new text: > "ENOENT target or linkpath are empty strings. Or a directory component > in linkpath does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link." Thanks. Yes, POSIX actually explicitly notes that ENOENT occurs if the second argument is an empty string. I added this point to the man page. Cheers, Michael > I tested with > result = symlink("", NULL); > printf("symlink: '' NULL: %d, %d, '%s'\n", result, errno, strerror(errno)); > > Output: > symlink: '' NULL: -1, 2, 'No such file or directory' > > -- > Jonny jg@xxxxxxxx -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
