[ On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 at 00:30:39 (-0400), Matthew Mondor wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Trailing '/' to mkdir(2) revisited
>
> > I know this has been discussed before and I don't want to stir up a
> > flame fest, however NetBSD is getting a bit lonely in its refusal to
> > accept a trailing '/' on a path supplied to mkdir(2).
> > 
> >   4922 a3       CALL  mkdir(0x804a580,0x1ff)
> >   4922 a3       NAMI  "fubar/"
> >   4922 a3       RET   mkdir -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
> 
> I also noticed that umount does not permit a trailing slash on NetBSD but
> that Linux does, anyone know about other such operating systems that do?

_ALL_ systems based on traditional Unix _ignore_ _all_ trailing slashes
on _all_ pathanmes for all system calls.

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