Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance
Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance
Posted May 23, 2013 21:31 UTC (Thu) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance by dlang
Parent article: Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance
There is value in being POSIX compliant, but you get 99.999%+ of the value by being "almost" POSIX compliant the way Linux is.
It seems to me that refusing to follow the POSIX behavior when it's really stupid, as Linux is doing by refusing to create symlinks named the empty string, probably gives you slightly more value than rigid adherence to the standard would.
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