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-x1 root root0 Dec 4 14:42 foo ->
hurd:/mnt/x# ls foo
ls: : No suc
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:22:42PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> We should figure out what behavior we want. In Linux 2.2, it is impossible
> to create a symlink with empty contents (symlink returns ENOENT).
However, I verified that it doesn't crash when it finds one on a Hurd fs.
It acts as a
We should figure out what behavior we want. In Linux 2.2, it is impossible
to create a symlink with empty contents (symlink returns ENOENT). In
FreeBSD 4.1, you can create a symlink to empty--and it acts like a symlink
to /. What I would have expected was that it act like a symlink to ., but
it
Package: hurd
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
>From the TODO file:
*** If the target of a symlink is the empty string, stat seems to spin forever !!!
This is not true, instead it crashes with E_BAD_ACCESS. Here is what
happens. Consider 'ln -s "" foo; cat foo'
libdiskfs/dir-lookup.c:
path is "f
