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Re: truncate-fail-diag failure on Solaris


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: truncate-fail-diag failure on Solaris
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:08:51 +0200

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> It's worth noting in documentation that with the replacement function,
>> opening-for-write any name ending with a slash (regardless of
>> whether the non-trailing-slashed name exists) will always fail.
>
> IMO that's already clear from POSIX [1], which says:
...
> But I can certainly add a comment in the code...
...
> +         ends withone or more trailing slashes shall be resolved as if a

Thanks.  Now that the comments also say this affects
open-for-write, it's clearer.

s/withone/with one/




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