Symbolic links
2008-09-15 14:40![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fanfWhat happens if you try to create a symlink to a zero-length target, as in ln -s "" foo?
Linux: ENOENT.
Mac OS X 10.4: EINVAL.
FreeBSD: works, and any attempt to resolve the symlink returns ENOENT.
Solaris: works, and the resulting symlink behaves the same as ln -s . foo
