From: Haynes AT pwrh DOT com (Haynes, Dan)
Subject: stat() bug?
15 Nov 1998 14:21:35 -0800
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Greetings,

  I don't know if this is expected behaviour under Unix or not (I'm an NT
kind of guy) but I think this is a bug: stat() with an empty file name
returns 0. This is reproducible with:

#include <sys/stat.h>

int main( void )
{
int rc ;
struct stat	statBuffer ;

  rc = stat( "", &statBuffer ) ;
  return ( 0 ) ;
}

When compiled with gcc 2.7-B19, rc is 0. The same code compiled with Borland
C++ V5.02 returns -1.

Is this a Unix-ism, or did I find an oops?

Regards,

  Dan Haynes


	

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