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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:41:29 -0800
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But dmr's comment is talking about wildcard expansion ("filename
generation" in sh-speak), not directory-reading.  And his argument
does make sense in that context.  At minimum, you'd need to modify rc
and ape/sh to suppress duplicates.

Programs other than the shells read directories without expanding
wildcards, and if not also changed would behave inconsistently with
the shells.  They are at least: acme, bitsy/keyboard, cron, du,
exportfs, faces, gzip, listen, mk, mkfs, mothra, replica programs,
srvold9p, tar, vac, and winwatch.