On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:22:42PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> That said, I hacked this patch, which might work.
It does, with one small glitch:
hurd:/mnt/x# ln -s "" foo
hurd:/mnt/x# ls -l
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 4 14:42 foo ->
hurd:/mnt/x# ls foo
ls: : No such file or directory
hurd:/mnt/x# ls foo/
foo
hurd:/mnt/x# touch foo/a
hurd:/mnt/x# ls
a foo
Note the ENOENT returned from ls foo. This is not exactly the same behaviour
as with a symlink to '.'. Another small point is that the output of "ls -F"
really gets confusing now:
hurd:/mnt/x# ls -l
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 4 14:42 foo -> /
*grin* :)
As really nothing uses symlinks to "", there is little reason to worry about
the small glitch. I'd say check it in.
Marcus
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