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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /-happy
Message-ID: <13610@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Aug 90 18:58:29 GMT
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In article <1990Aug16.215045.21300@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>The null pathname (look carefully between the consecutive "/"-s, and
>you'll see them there) is a valid synonym for the "current directory".

No, it isn't, at least for modern UNIX implementations.