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Re: [PATCH, HURD]: null pathnames shall return ENOENT

From: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:13:24 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH, HURD]: null pathnames shall return ENOENT
References: <20090913144845.GQ5524@const.famille.thibault.fr> <20090914183743.9B3FC26FE@magilla.sf.frob.com>

Roland McGrath, le Mon 14 Sep 2009 11:37:43 -0700, a écrit :
> The POSIX requirement is a generic one for pathname resolution.
> So this exclusion belongs in a more central place, not repeated in these.

__hurd_file_name_lookup already does it, the problem here is that
before calling it, chdir() systematically appends "/." . Or perhaps
a cleaner solution would be to not append "/." in that case and let
__hurd_file_name_lookup return ENOENT?

Samuel

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