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Re: [Patch]: chdir


On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:00:37AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Ooops:
>> 
>>   $ cd /
>>   /: No such file or directory.
>
>Oops, nothing to do with chdir. It's in the code that detects
>file components consisting entirely of dots or spaces.
>
>Something crossed my mind. Should we allow trailing dots and
>spaces on managed mounts (and encode that)? After all the goal
>is to be fully Unix like there. 

Yes, eventually.  There are lots of things that still need to be
done for managed mounts, though.  Maybe I need to start keeping a list.

cgf


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