On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jonas Munsin wrote:
>> command in Linux, or in a script, I ALWAYS use a trailing "/" as
>> it prevents this problem. If you're worried about double slashes
>> being used via scripts, don't worry, it is handled correctly, for
>> example:
>>
>
>And this is of course utterly non-portable:
>
>aton:~/tmp$ uname -a
>SunOS aton 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
>aton:~/tmp$ echo 1234 > file
>aton:~/tmp$ ls -l
>total 2
>-rw------- 1 jmunsin infpersonal 5 Oct 10 12:42 file
>aton:~/tmp$ cp file dir/
>aton:~/tmp$ ls -l
>total 4
>-rw------- 1 jmunsin infpersonal 5 Oct 10 12:42 dir
>-rw------- 1 jmunsin infpersonal 5 Oct 10 12:42 file
Perhaps it is time to upgrade. A fine young Finnish cs student
once created an operating system around your neck of the woods
that is quite portable. ;o)
Seriously, it isn't hard to make it portable if you want it to
be. I don't package RPM packages for Solaris/SunOS so I don't
have that portability problem.
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Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Open source advocate
Computer Consultant - Capslock Consulting
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[Quote: Linus Torvalds linux-2.4.0-test8-pre6 release message - Sept 6, 2000]
But I have this ugly feeling that I'm coming down with the same flu that
everybody else in my family had the last week, so I'd better release this
before I start puking on my keyboard.
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