Re: ln "" foo gives misleading error message

[John Cowan]

Andreas Schwab scripsit:

> An empty name never resolves to a file, so any attempt to follow this
> symlink should fail with ENOENT (but not the symlink creation).

On Solaris 9, an empty symbolic link can be freely created, and it
resolves to the current working directory, as does an attempt to open
"" directly.  On Cygwin, attempting to create a zero-length symbolic
link fails with ENOENT, just as on Linux.

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