On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:24:22PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > There was a discussion about some bugs in processing empty file names > > but while reading it i didn't notice the special nature of these file > > names. > > We were referring to the file "" inside of a symlink (i.e. what > happens when we look up a symlink whose target is ""; `ln -s "" foo'). > Here you are referring to an empty path component.
You are all off track. Subject: Bug#107826: can not create file through a dangling symlink From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 Aug 2001 10:44:12 -0700 Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The specification is for all pathname translation--it always works the > same, no matter what particular functions you are using. In the Hurd > implementation, this all happens in the hurd_file_name_lookup functions > (libc/hurd/hurdlookup.c) or in the dir_lookup RPC server. I think that all > we need to change right now to match this new spec is to insert a check for > "" in hurd_file_name_lookup and hurd_file_name_split. The current interface deliberately invokes lookups of "" for various important cases. Turning that off in dir_lookup will break much, so it must be done in the library. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
