Re: Don't concat directories to file names

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:27:30 +0200
>> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> Also, in MS-DOS, there was some trickery to simulate that directories
>> were files, but you couldn't, for example, get the size of one, or
>> directly write onto it as a file.
>
> Directories _are_ files on MSDOS, they are just special files, in that
> some file I/O functions fail for them.

I seem to remember that the root directory on a disk is not a file.

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