From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) In-Reply-To: <50440c6f4b6946137968d772dcf08a2a@hamnavoe.com> References: <50440c6f4b6946137968d772dcf08a2a@hamnavoe.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Rob Pike Subject: Re: [9fans] ls, rc question -- proposed change to rc/glob.c To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:07:16 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 383a9f22-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 are you planning to change the other shells too? what about every other program that reads directories? what does '*' really mean? you're making assumptions about what's right and i don't think it's clear what's right and when things aren't clear i say leave them alone until they clear up. after something like 15 years they still haven't cleared up. 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. -rob