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From: mike@turing.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: Some thoughts on filenames - "" in particular
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 09:47:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 16 09:47:09 1987
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In article <2423@mcdchg.UUCP>, neilb@elecvax (Neil F. Brown) writes:
~	chmod +x ""
~	# this works as "" IS the current directory, no directory search needed
~
~    This is what first convinced me that "", not "." was really the current
~    directory.
~
~    On BSD4.2 it goes much the same way until you get to
~	chmod +x ""
~    This don't work on BSD!! I was shocked. Is NOTHING sacred?
~    Now I HAVE to remember where I am.  Such is "progress".


We just got 4.3+NFS from Mt. Xinu and it doesn't have this problem.
As they got the directory scanning stuff from Sun, I bet it works
there, too.
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				Michael I. Bushnell
				a/k/a Bach II
				mike@turing.unm.edu
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