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Best solved in the C-library?

Best solved in the C-library?

Posted May 23, 2013 8:58 UTC (Thu) by shalem (subscriber, #4062)
Parent article: Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance

Since the POSIX API is defined at the C-lib level, and not system call level AFAIK, why not simply let the C-lib deal with this, and replace the empty string with for example . It could perhaps even depend on feature macros ...

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Best solved in the C-library?

Posted May 23, 2013 13:33 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Because then if you do, say, readlink() on the link you get something other than what you stored there. That, too, has standards-compliance issues.


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