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Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:58:29 -0800 |
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> Huh? I think there is a misunderstanding. The GNU standards don't want
> 'pathname' to occur in the documentation in the sense as POSIX uses it,
> because of the PATH variable and the concept of search paths. Paul then
> doesn't want to use 'pathname' in code either, so that there are less
> differences between the code and user documentation. But 'filename' and
> 'file' are fine according to everyone.
The standards.info I have here says that "file name" should be
two words, not one:
Please do not use the term "pathname" that is used in Unix
documentation; use "file name" (two words) instead. We use the term
"path" only for search paths, which are lists of directory names.
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- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, (continued)
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Matthew Woehlke, 2006/11/29
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Eric Blake, 2006/11/29
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Matthew Woehlke, 2006/11/29
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Eric Blake, 2006/11/29
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Matthew Woehlke, 2006/11/30
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Eric Blake, 2006/11/30
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Matthew Woehlke, 2006/11/30
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Jim Meyering, 2006/11/30
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Matthew Woehlke, 2006/11/30
- Re: [bug-gnulib] gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Bruno Haible, 2006/11/30
- Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir,
Ben Pfaff <=
Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Eric Blake, 2006/11/30
Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir, Nix, 2006/11/29