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From:	haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)
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To:	egsirer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re:  bug in globber?
Cc:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu

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