From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-07T10:33:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ?? weirdness in Find.find/lstat ??

Hi,

In message "?? weirdness in Find.find/lstat ??"
    on 02/12/07, ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:

|lstat itself seems to have strange behaviour :
|
|  /tmp > ruby -r find -e "p File.lstat('bar').directory?"
|  false
|
|  /tmp > ruby -r find -e "p File.lstat('bar/').directory?"
|  true
|
|i checked and this is the behaviour of the underlying C calls as well.  is
|this a linux bug, or do all lstat/stat posix calls work that way?

"bar/" is "bar" and "", which is considered as "bar/.", so that it is
referring the directory itself.  I'm not sure if it's POSIX-ly defined
behavior.

							matz.