From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: PATCH: misc glob fixes
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:36:47 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199805110936.KAA22602@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199805092217.RAA02878@hzoli.home> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at May 9, 98 05:17:07 pm
Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
>First, many systems ignore trailing slashes on filenames. As a result */
>will match all files instead of just directories as required by common
>sense and the POSIX standard. The solution is to stat/lstat/access
>`filename/.' instead of `filename/'.
But "filename/." can't be statted if the directory is not searchable
by the zsh process, whereas POSIX would require the glob to succeed.
It would be better to stat "filename/" and test that the result has
type directory.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-11 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-09 22:17 Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-05-11 9:36 ` Andrew Main [this message]
1998-05-11 15:49 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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