Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] 9p: forbid empty extension string

[Eric Blake]

On 08/28/2016 12:34 PM, Greg Kurz wrote:

>>
>> For the sake of simplicity, I'd rather have the target names to follow the
>> same rules as other file names, and return ENOENT directly (the link you
>> provide states it is a valid option).
>>
>> Peter,
>>
>> Since you suggested to do explicit error checking on empty file names, do
>> you have an opinion on the case of symlinks with an empty target ?

Failing with ENOENT for both "" and for "a/b" seems reasonable to me (a
directory entry named "a/b" can never exist, just as "" cannot exist).

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