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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /bin/test and stat(2)
Message-ID: <6479@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 23:53:55 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 26 23:53:55 1987
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References: <9479@brl-adm.ARPA> <29056@sun.uucp> <15069@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <15069@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>STAT should never be called with NULL, but it should always work
>when called with a zero length string (e.g. "").

On many implementations, "" is not a valid filename (when it is,
it is synonymous with ".").