Re: ln "" foo gives misleading error message
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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Andreas Schwab scripsit: > An empty name never resolves to a file, so any attempt to follow this > symlink should fail with ENOENT (but not the symlink creation). On Solaris 9, an empty symbolic link can be freely created, and it resolves to the current working directory, as does an attempt to open "" directly. On Cygwin, attempting to create a zero-length symbolic link fails with ENOENT, just as on Linux. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider. --Bilbo to Smaug