From: Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PDP-7 UNIX filesystem
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:54:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191021165450.GB18793@indra.papnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191021062242.GA91599@indra.papnet.eu>
On 21/10/19, Angelo Papenhoff wrote:
> . and ..
To this I seem to have found an answer by checking how stat.s and ls.s
work. 'stat foo' will check whether '../foo' (using /-notation) exists
and will then print the status.
'ls foo' will check whether '../foo' is a directory and will then open
foo and list it. It will default to .. if no argument is given.
This to me suggests that .. (confusingly) refers to the current
directory.
. does not seem to have any conventional meaning.
To the first question I still have no answer.
aap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-21 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-21 6:22 Angelo Papenhoff
2019-10-21 10:43 ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-21 11:38 ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-21 12:00 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-10-21 13:31 ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-22 18:07 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-10-23 0:07 ` Mary Ann Horton
2019-10-23 2:02 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-10-23 2:19 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-23 8:34 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-10-24 0:06 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-24 2:23 ` Michael Parson
2019-10-25 21:08 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-25 21:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-25 21:50 ` reed
2019-10-25 22:54 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-24 2:29 ` Christopher Browne
2019-10-24 8:25 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-10-21 16:54 ` Angelo Papenhoff [this message]
2019-10-23 5:48 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-10-21 11:58 Noel Chiappa
2019-10-21 15:44 ` Abhinav Rajagopalan
2019-10-22 2:09 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2019-10-23 2:00 ` Christopher Browne
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