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Astolaf.265 net.bugs utzoo!decvax!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!sft Tue Apr 6 18:16:31 1982 Re: nami misfeature, cont. We fixed that one (on V7) long ago. I vaguely remember something about a command in /etc/rc generating a shell that attempted to read from a null filename and ended up trying to interpret a directory. Nasty business, that.

There's another ambiguity in the same code. The stock code, as I recall, accepted multiple slashes between directory names and a trailing slash after the filename. This doesn't fit the description of a well-formed pathname, either. We zapped this misfeature at the same time. Steve Tarr ...!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!sft

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