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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: To . or not to .
Message-ID: <9171@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 13:16:53 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.9171
Posted: Fri Oct 30 13:16:53 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 00:49:46 EST
References: <648@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <722@wacsvax.OZ>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <722@wacsvax.OZ> frank@wacsvax.OZ (Frank O'Connor) writes:
>Please flame me if I am wrong but why wouldn't :
>	for p in $x/*/
>	do
>		stuff
>	done
>be sufficient. ...

Well, for one thing, this uses the zero-length-string file name
(right there after the second slash: it refers to the current
directory as of that slash).

If System V's namei is consistent, this will fail in the same way
as open("", 0) (and it will not accept names like a//b or //x).
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