From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20018 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2000 07:02:16 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 4 Aug 2000 07:02:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 22851 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2000 07:02:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12515 Received: (qmail 22840 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2000 07:01:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:01:48 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200008040701.JAA23407@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: Clint Adams's message of Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:38:09 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: completion problem with filename including # (and pathmax stuff) 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