<<On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:33:07 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Here's an example of a complication: what is the semantics of /tmp/foo/bar
> where foo is a symlink to ""?  I think the pathname resolves to
> /tmp//bar and then to /tmp/bar, but this is surprising since foo doesn't
> point anywhere.

But this is at least consistent with the historic (pre-POSIX) behavior
where the filename "" is equivalent to ".".

-GAWollman


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