Re: kern/45425: how to restore traditional unix behaviour for slashes on the end of pathnames

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/45425; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/45425: how to restore traditional unix behaviour for
 slashes on the end of pathnames
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:26:21 +0000

 On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 09:20:03PM +0000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
  >  > Of course. But so what? The system's overall behavior should be
  >  > consistent.
  >  
  >  In the context of this discussion the only thing I can imagine you mean
  >  by that is that, by extension of what you've said, you ultimately think
  >  the kernel should do pathname globing too.  That doesn't seem like
  >  something you would actually want though, and it certainly would be a
  >  far more radical change, so perhaps I'm not really understanding what
  >  you're trying to say.
 
 No, I meant that user issues such as whether "mkdir foo/" is accepted
 should present behavior consistent with kernel issues such as whether
 rmdir("foo/") is accepted.
 
 Anyhow, realistically we are not going to make this change.
 
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 David A. Holland
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