Re: _canonical_path not working on *BSD

[Pea <zsh@raveland.org>]

Le Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:44:13 +0100,
Baptiste Daroussin <baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> _canonical_path is not working on freebsd, it rely on readlink which  
> does work the same on BSD :
> on openbsd -q options doesn't exist : umount[tab] gives readlink:  
> unknown option -- q
> on freebsd readlink: illegal option -- q
> 
> there is on patch on freebsd ports which uses /usr/sbin/stat that  
> works but then the completion is buggy
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/shells/zsh/files/patch-Completion-Unix-Type-_canonical_paths?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fplain
> 
> 
> umount /h[tab]
> gives me umount /h/
> then [tab] again gives me umount /h//
> 
> so currently the work around is to replace _canonical_path by
> compadd -a in _mount (udevordir) and it works
> 
> I can't find any clue to correct the bug myself.
> 
> Thanks
> Bapt
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Hi,

I confirm the error on OpenBSD.
The solution provided by baptiste works. 
Second solution (for OpenBSD), change the call to readlink -f (in
Completion/Unix/Type/_canonical_paths).

Regards.

Pea