At 04:23 AM 4/10/2001 -0400, Philip Newton wrote:
>I once created, on a Unix box, a directory named 'http:' and inside it, a
>file named www.datenrevision.de. This enabled me to open
>'http://www.datenrevision.de' and read from it (since multiple
>consecutive slashes are generally treated as one slash on Unix) -- a
>little playful fun.
>
>Would your proposal imply that I would not be able to open this file any
>more without resorting to "tricks" such as sysopen or './http://blabla'?
Yup. You'd probably have to throw a file: in front of it. But... so what?
Unix is already littered with potential valid filenames that you need to
get funky with to properly open. Try opening a file who's name is a single
dash, or that has a leading or trailing pipe for example, or try to use a
wildcard to expand filenames on the command line when you have filenames
with spaces in them.
Dan
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