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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: completion problem with filename including # (and pathmax stuff)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:01:48 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200008040701.JAA23407@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Clint Adams's message of Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:38:09 -0400


Clint Adams wrote:

> > There is another problem with the pathmax stuff: with the files
> > module, doing `mkdir foo' fails because it tries to get the pathname
> > length of a non-existing directory. Haven't checked if there are other 
> > builtins with this problem.
> 
> I tested this, and it worked fine.  Perhaps this means that glibc 2.1.3 is
> broken.  I just now tried it under FreeBSD 4.0, and OpenBSD 2.7, and ran
> into the error you mentioned.
> 
> I think that statting to find the mount point would be too wasteful.
> Dropping the tail could work except for things like mkdir -p.

But we need some kind of solution. I'm getting this with a normal
True64 Unix installation (so it has nothing to do with any glibc
whatsoever).

And I want my file-module builtins back ;-)


Bye
 Sven


--
Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de


             reply	other threads:[~2000-08-04  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-04  7:01 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
2000-08-04  7:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-04  7:38   ` Bart Schaefer
2000-08-04 10:47   ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-08-04 13:35     ` Clint Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-04  7:42 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-08-04 13:38 ` Clint Adams
2000-08-03 13:30 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-08-03 14:38 ` Clint Adams
2000-08-03 14:53   ` Clint Adams
2000-08-04 21:51 ` Tanaka Akira

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