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Date: Tue,  1 Feb 2011 05:25:21 -0300
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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely
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> term% mkdir trashdir && cd trashdir && mkdir x
> term% touch `{i=3D0; while (test $i -lt 128) { echo -n abcdefghijklmnop; =
i=3D`{echo $i+1|hoc} } }
> term% cp abc* abc* x
> # watch the cp executable suicide
> # now, make SURE there's nothing in this rio window that you want to keep=
...
> term% rm abc*
> # watch the rio window go bye bye!
>
> I'm not someone to complain without also offering solutions, though.
> I'm in the process of writing some C macros that might help clean up the
> source code, ensure intended bounary conditions, improve some
> interfaces, etc. =C2=A0I already have some working code, but it's still v=
ery
> experimental.
>

I don't see how C macros would improve rc's globbing code, which
thinks that there won't be files with names that long.

--=20
Federico G. Benavento