From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: Null filename ("") is considered to correspond to an existing, readable, and writable file?
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:25:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICMEBBDBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufyo5p1fr.fsf@gnu.org>
> Those general design goals are fine, but they
> don't speak specifically to the advantage of _this_
> particular design. They don't, for example, show an
> advantage over considering "" to not be a file
> name (neither relative nor absolute).
One advantage, IMO, is that no error is thrown or signaled for "",
which means application code will not need to cope with these
exceptional situations.
OK. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-03 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-02 22:57 Null filename ("") is considered to correspond to an existing, readable, and writable file? Drew Adams
2006-01-03 1:22 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-03 3:27 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-03 4:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-03 8:24 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-03 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-03 4:56 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-03 5:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-03 8:25 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-03 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-03 18:51 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-03 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-03 19:25 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2006-01-03 19:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-03 20:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-01-03 21:09 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-07 20:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-01-03 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-03 18:51 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-03 19:23 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-03 18:51 ` Drew Adams
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