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From: | Jim Meyering |
Subject: | bug#13447: ln "" foo gives misleading error message |
Date: | Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:58:36 +0100 |
Bob Proulx wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Pádraig Brady wrote: >> > Interestingly I notice that solaris for example allows a NULL old_path. >> >> That Solaris behavior is contrary to POSIX 2008 >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/symlink.html > > Where does it say this? I read it through in detail but I didn't see > that it required a diagnostic to be emitted in the case that value is > am empty string. What did I miss? Oh! You're right. Thanks for pointing that out. It's only the source (2nd argument) to symlink that may not be the empty string. ERRORS These functions shall fail if: [EACCES] ... [ENOENT] A component of path2 does not name an existing file or path2 is an empty string. There is no restriction on "path1".
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