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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Question about stat( "", &s )
Keywords: stat(2), directory
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Date: 9 Feb 90 23:51:56 GMT
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In article <8788@boring.cwi.nl> marck@cwi.nl (Marc H. Kool) writes:
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>Is the empty file name an alias for "." ?

On some systems (BSD based) it is.  Don't count on it, though - this shortcut
is forbidden in a POSIX conformant environment.
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