>>>>> "Binand" == Binand Sethumadhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Binand> USM Bish posted in linux-india-help:
>> Devdas, I did not get the meaning of NUL from the keyboard
>> point of view. Do you mean 'space' by itself ? This too can be
>> escaped.
Binand> Nul is ASCII 0x0. Nul and '/' (ASCII 0x2f) are the only
Binand> two characters that cannot appear in a Unix filename.
Binand> Nul, because it is the "end of string" marker. /, because
Binand> it is the path separator.
Binand> Follow up question: What would happen if I did:
Binand> char *p = ""; mkdir (p, ...); ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ echo 'main(){char *p="";mkdir(p,0700);perror("mkdir");}'>1.c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ make 1
cc 1.c -o 1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ ./1
mkdir: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$
I like this... any more funky Linux/Unix questions?
-- Raju
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