The following reply was made to PR bin/36609; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "De Zeurkous" <zeurkous@nichten.info>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: RE: bin/36609: Fix {fdisk,disklabel}(8) device path parsing
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:03:32 -0000 (UTC)

 On Fri, July 6, 2007 06:35, Alan Barrett wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/36609; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
 > 	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: bin/36609: Fix {fdisk,disklabel}(8) device path parsing
 > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 00:19:50 +0200
 >
 >  On Thu, 05 Jul 2007, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 >[snip]
 >
 >  In this scheme, users who want "./wd2" can ask for that explicitly,
 >  while users who want "/dev/rwd2d" (where "d" is the raw partition) can
 >  ask for any of "wd2", "wd2d", or "/dev/rwd2d".
 
 Note that this solution does not take into account recursive /dev
 configurations (also my bad). Propose to check if path begins with '/' or
 './' instead. Automaged processes are of course strongly encouraged to use
 the device file in the first place; this magic is strictly intended for
 admin convenience.
 
 >
 >  I don't think it's un-unix-like for an interface that's intended to open
 >  a "disk" to interpreting its argument as a disk name in preference to a
 >  file name.
 
 No, but it is un-UNIX-like to ask for a disk identifier instead of the
 corresponding device file in the first place. Note that I do not oppose
 this behavior; see my earlier reply.
 
 --De Zeurkous.
 
 >
 >  --apb (Alan Barrett)
 >
 >