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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Question about stat( "", &s )
Keywords: stat(2), directory
Message-ID: <12114@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Feb 90 08:54:00 GMT
References: <8788@boring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8788@boring.cwi.nl> marck@cwi.nl (Marc H. Kool) writes:
>Is the empty file name an alias for "." ?

In some implementations it is, and in some it is not.
Don't count on "" being accepted as a valid file name.