Re: Linux's interpretation of trailing '/'

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:06:03 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> $ touch z
> $ cat z/
> cat: z/: Not a directory
> $ cat z//
> cat: z//: Not a directory
> $ cat z/.
> cat: z/.: Not a directory
>
> All quite reasonable and logical, but Solaris behaves this way:

I don't find the error message logical, since you can't cat a
directory.

cat: z/: Not a directory
cat: /: Is a directory

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