Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ghost file
Message-ID: <512@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 19:58:28 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I made a file called "" the other day. That's "\0" in C, an empty
>string.

No, you didn't.  You did something else.  A null pathname in most
systems is either

	1) a synonym for the current directory

or

	2) an illegal pathname.

In SunOS, it's a synonym for the current directory.