Subject: Re: What should stat("",&fs) return?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: current-users
Date: 05/31/1996 02:39:41
cgd writes:
> strtok? strtok didn't show up (in libc) until '85. the "treat an
> empty string as ." convention in the pathname resolution code dates to
> before 1980.
>
> It's likely that it was there from much earlier than that (somebody
> with copy of the Lions book? i can't find mine right now 8-).
Just tell me where to look and I'll check in this dog-eared pile of papers
with some guy named Lions' name on it that I, uh, Don't Have :-)
- Greg
P.S. I heard that DMR is working on getting an official release for the Lions
book. 20th anniversary edition I guess :-)