On Tue, 10 May 2005, Chris Ross wrote:
> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >More to the point -- what is the namespace for the argument?  Are we 
> >naming files or vnd devices? 
> 
>   That's really the problem.  It's both.

Could we say that, if you specify a string that doesn't contain "/",
then it is interpreted as a device name, and if you specify a string
that contains "/" then it is interpreted as a file name?  If you really
want to specify "./vnd0", then just include the "./" at the beginning.

--apb (Alan Barrett)