On 02/18/2015 04:50 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> I assume it's too late to revert the behavior to adhere to POSIX >>> rules as it may break existing use cases.
>> >> I don't think the "-" behavior is useful in this case. >> >> I vote for fixing it as a bug fix. > > It's one of those borderline ones. > Given no-one has complained, I think there is a > greater chance that someone is relying on the current behavior. But their reliance on the behavior is non-portable if they switch to a POSIX machine. > There are already lots of gotchas with a file named '-', > so I wouldn't be on for change to support that. Anyone using './-' as the file name avoids the ambiguity without regard to whether '-' is special. But I'm still 60:40 in favor of fixing it as a bug fix, for consistency with other POSIX implementations. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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