From: haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)
To: egsirer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: bug in globber?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 00:31:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9305230431.AA21172@astro.mv.us.adobe.com> (raw)
Gun writes
> I think (and Byron can correct me if I'm wrong) this is because rc globs
> all the elements of a path if there is globbing anywhere within it. That
> is, given "foo/../foo*" rc will first match "foo" against everything in ".",
> ".." against everything in foo (for which it needs read permission) and
> "foo*" against stuff in "foo/..".
and he's right. it's actually a trivial change to make; we changed it
when we ported rc's globber to es. i believe that Byron had put it on
his list of changes for 1.5, and it's probably a change that should be
made for both correctness and performance reasons.
paul
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1993-05-23 4:31 Paul Haahr [this message]
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1993-05-22 23:46 Emin Gun Sirer
1993-05-22 17:13 Alan Watson
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