Question about stat( "", &s )

Larry McVoy lm at snafu.Sun.COM
Sat Feb 10 10:51:56 AEST 1990


In article <8788 at boring.cwi.nl> marck at cwi.nl (Marc H. Kool) writes:
>
>Is the empty file name an alias for "." ?

On some systems (BSD based) it is.  Don't count on it, though - this shortcut
is forbidden in a POSIX conformant environment.
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