[Scsh-hackers] Re: More on file name grammar

[sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])]

>>>>> "Olin" == shivers  <shivers@cc.gatech.edu> writes:

Olin> More on this issue of the root file/directory: it is a nasty little
Olin> bit of Unix that / is both a filename and a directory. The scheme
Olin> I presented in the previous msg represents the root *file* as empty
Olin> string, to which you append a slash (as you do with *all* files) to
Olin> get a directory, in this case "/".

This is all true as long as you're dealing with exclusively absolute
filenames.  The problem is, the filenames-as-strings API doesn't
distinguish them from relative ones, and you need to use the same damn
procedures to operate them. (That's the fundamental thing our filename
API does.)

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