>From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>>>-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)
>>
>>But obviously buggy. Did you report that bug to the Linux kernel team?
>Actually, it is a feature. A useful one too. Time to update the
>standards I guess.. Or will UNIX proper be around long enough
There has been a long discussion on the UNIX 2000 mailing list.
Just imagine, that some time ago, it was OK to open("", ...)
to get the current directory. This is no longer allowed, you need to
use ".".
If you would allow to open("bla/", ...) this would implicitly a open
of "" in dir bla and this is the reason, why dir/ has no special meaning.
For reasons of orthogonality, you need to open("bla/.", ...)
>and in large enough capacity to matter now? ;o) SCO is no
>longer with us... who's next the penguin asks... ;o)
Let's see what happens with the Solaris source. Note that neither
Sun nor SCO or it's new owner are allowed to make Solaris or SCO UNIX
open source. Both in a joined action could do.
J�rg
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