<<On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:40:23 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> NetBSD committed essentially this patch 4 years ago (as part of rev.1.23).
> I like it, except it seems to be incompatible with POSIX.1-200x.
I think I agree with your interpretation. Quoting from XBDd7, page
101, lines 3153ff:
# In all other cases, the system shall prefix the remaining pathname,
# if any, with the contents of the symbolic link. [...] [T]he
# resolved pathname shall be the resolution of the pathname just
# created. If the resulting pathname does not begin with a slash, the
# predecessor of the first filename of the pathname is taken to be the
# directory containing the symbolic link.
So, if we have a symbolic link ``foo'' with contents ``'' (i.e., the
empty string):
Pathname Resolves to
./foo ./foo (i.e., the link itself), iff condition 3
on lines 3151-2 is met; otherwise [ENOENT]
./foo/ /
./foo/bar /bar
-GAWollman
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