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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ls, rc question -- proposed change to rc/glob.c
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:12:11 -0700
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Charles Forsyth wrote:

> come to think of it, if i expect {rm -r a} to empty (and delete) `a'
> might i not expect {rm a/*} and especially {rm -r a/*}
> to remove all removable names from `a'?

seems right. There's a lot of subtleties to the union thing. I think that 
Plan 9's decision (present it to the users in its entirety) is the right 
one.

ron