A suggestion: .... == ../../..

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <13087 at brl-adm.ARPA> rbj at icst-cmr.arpa writes:

>While `.' could possibly be removed from the file system (but then
>how would you remove a file called `-r')

The kernel, or more specifically namei(), doesn't actually open the
directory to look for "." in a filename like "./-r". It knows what
the current working directory is (it's in the user block) and it
uses that instead of looking for a "." entry.
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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