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From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: File naming conventions.
Message-ID: <1815@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 04:47:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1815
Posted: Sun Oct  4 04:47:05 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 06:26:17 EDT
References: <503@louie.udel.EDU> <1929@umd5.umd.edu> <775@sugar.UUCP> <5218@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <837@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Followup-To: Don't bother, this has almost nothing to do with the Amiga anyway
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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Summary: "" not legal on SysV UNIX

In article <837@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>          [ ... ]           I said that NULL is not a valid filename on UNIX
>in all contexts. It's nice that NULL maps to the current directory. It's even
>useful in some contexts. I would definitely NOT advocate making it illegal.

Just a note:  a null string is not a legal filename on Unix System V;
attempting to open() or otherwise access it results in an ENOENT error.
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