Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:42:12PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >>actually, following up to myself: >> >>you do need some way to disambiguate between the case of a device >>("bsdlabel ad0") and a file in the current directory ("bdslabel >>ad0"). > > > The file takes precedence, because any filename that does not contain > any directory elements is assumed to live in the current directory. The > shorthand for device special files is secundairy to that, because it's > a convenience only. If the device special file is meant, it has to be > specified as /dev/ad0 in the example given. > That makes it very easy to trash a file in the current directory. hartiReceived on Mon Mar 29 2004 - 22:17:13 UTC
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