On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
> yields different st1 and st2 (2), and quite clearly a violation of
> POSIX if
>
> stat("bar",&st1);
> stat("./bar",&st2);
>
> yields different st1 and st2 in any case (2). "." is _meant_ to be
> a no-op.
>
> (1) "questionable", because POSIX explicitly excludes the mount
> operation, so by using mount(), this example is outside the
> scope of the standard.
The whole situation is outside (both cases) because you can't
get the object in question without mount()...
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