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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /bin/test and stat(2)
Message-ID: <6620@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 01:52:41 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6620
Posted: Fri Oct 30 01:52:41 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 05:49:30 EST
References: <9977@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <9977@brl-adm.ARPA> franco@MIKEY.BBN.COM (Frank A. Lonigro) writes:
>Imagine if you will this scenario.  The average programmer(a non-unix.wizard
>or guru) writes a shell script that will ultimately need to run as "root"(UID 0)
>to be used as a HOME directory remover.

Frankly, under this scenario the semantics of test -d "" is the
least of your problems.