[1184] in bugtraq
Re: Sendmail fixkit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (System Administrator)
Mon Mar 6 11:22:15 1995
From: root@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (System Administrator)
To: dave@esi.com.au (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 14:07:42 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950306094100.1950A-100000@eram.esi.com.au> from "Dave Horsfall" at Mar 6, 95 09:43:08 am
> > On old versions of UNIX "" was the same as ".".
> It still is, at least, under SunOS and BSD/OS.
>
POSIX has some specific things to say about "." v "" when it
comes to things like opendir. This is one reason behaviour
varies, and why things like
#if defined(posixlike_os)
if(*bp==0)
return(".");
else
#endif
return bp
Are so common.
