Bug#107826: can not create file through a dangling symlink

[Niels Möller]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> > In skimming a couple parts of the spec, I also noticed it now explicitly
> > says that a lookup of "" must fail.  So we should change this too.
> 
> Yes.

Would such a change go in dir-lookup, or in the libc open function?
Does the requirements of the standard apply to more posix functions or
just open?

The current behaviour is quite logical given the requirement that
"foo/////bar" is the same thing as "foo/bar".

/Niels