On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Matthew Orgass wrote:

>   POSIX allows trailing slashes to refer to a directory.

Even if the directory doesn't exist yet? That is the core of the
argument, which when the discussion died down a couple of years ago was
entirely unresolved. Problem is, it is dereferencing the directory,
because "/foo/bar/" could be read as "/foo/bar/." (it is in NetBSD and
BSD/OS anyway, and this implementation could not be disproved as
Posixly correct at the time).

Cheers,

				-- Bert

Bert Driehuis -- driehuis@playbeing.org -- +31-20-3116119
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