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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: /bin/test and stat(2)
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Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 12:54:35 EDT
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In article <4779@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
>... Some, but most definitely NOT all, versions of Unix explicitly
>check for a null path in namei() and return an error (ENOENT, or
>perhaps EINVAL).  All others have the bug; since it's not exactly
>crippling, it's not considered a high priority to fix it, so it stays.

It is also not considered a bug (at least by some), just as the
null set is considered a set (at least by some), and zero sized
arrays are considered not unreasonable (at least by some [An error?
Probably.  But what if . . . ?]).
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