From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Tolpin Message-Id: <200403190934.i2J9YfaS099977@adat.davidashen.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ls, rc question -- proposed change to rc/glob.c In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:34:41 +0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3886ccf8-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > are you planning to change the other shells too? Yes for all which require to do so. Are there other documented shells for Plan9? > what about every other program that reads directories? No, I do not. I am not proposing to change the behavior of dirread(). > what does '*' really mean? The meaning is defined in manual for rc. you're making > assumptions > about what's right and i don't think it's clear what's right I just read the manual. > i'm not saying the behavior is right, but i'm not admitting it's wrong, > either. > moreover, i can explain everything that's going on by applying a very > simple > model that is clear from the documentation. that's worth a lot. For every problem there always exists a simple, easy to understand, incorrect solution.