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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:20:06 GMT
From:      "Ighighi Ighighi" <ighighi@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/107515: ls(1) bug
Message-ID:  <200706230820.l5N8K6ZJ037539@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/107515; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Ighighi Ighighi" <ighighi@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/107515: ls(1) bug
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:13:19 -0400

 Bruce Evans wrote:
 >  I think it is a bug in fts(3) for fts_path to be empty.  The empty
 >  pathname is never valid, and the error is for the directory.  Apparently,
 >  fts(3) reduces /tmp/a/ to the invalid basename "", but does the right
 >  thing for /tmp/a.
 
 Well, there's a 2 years old patch in OpenBSD applied in the same place
 as yours, titled
 "use fts_path if fts_name is not available", so it seems there are
 cases where fts_name
 could be "", the code in fts.c is theirs after all.  Check:
 
 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/ls/ls.c.diff?r1=1.22&r2=1.23
 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/ls/ls.c
 
 Maybe it's time to patch this one.



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