Subject: Re: lib/222: stat(2) returns 0 for path=""
To: Jarle Greipsland <jarle@darling.idt.unit.no>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/09/1994 18:44:02
>>Description:
>stat(2) returns 0 instead of -1 when the first parameter is the empty string.
>According to the manual page stat(2) will fail (with ENOENT) if the named file
>does not exist. I don't think "" exist.....
"" is interpreted by the name lookup routines as ".", which
(hopefully!!!!) exists.
chris
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