From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: (qmail 5959 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2020 19:18:02 -0000 Received-SPF: pass (primenet.com.au: domain of zsh.org designates 203.24.36.2 as permitted sender) receiver=inbox.vuxu.org; client-ip=203.24.36.2 envelope-from= Received: from ns1.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (203.24.36.2) by inbox.vuxu.org with UTF8ESMTPZ; 11 Apr 2020 19:18:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 14361 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2020 19:17:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: X-Seq: 45673 Received: (qmail 12258 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Apr 2020 19:17:51 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from joooj.vinc17.net by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.102.2/25772. spamassassin: 3.4.4. Clear:RC:0(155.133.131.76):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 1.799282 secs); 11 Apr 2020 19:17:51 -0000 X-Envelope-From: vincent@vinc17.net X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at vinc17.net does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 21:17:11 +0200 From: Vincent Lefevre To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: glob qualifier '-' doesn't work correctly on dangling symlinks Message-ID: <20200411191711.GA1722320@zira.vinc17.org> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-workers@zsh.org References: <20200411151511.GA1708902@zira.vinc17.org> <20200411173450.56nnznxtmil5oge3@chazelas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20200411173450.56nnznxtmil5oge3@chazelas.org> X-Mailer-Info: https://www.vinc17.net/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1+33 (6a74e24e) vl-117499 (2019-06-23) On 2020-04-11 18:34:50 +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2020-04-11 17:15:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre: > [...] > > +zsh:10> ls -l file3 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 lefevre lefevre 5 2008-12-28 22:34:28 file3 -> file0 > > > > file*(-W) should have no matches. > [...] > > It is not really documented but kind of implied that on broken > symlinks, after -, we're still looking at the symlink instead of > the target (there's no target for us to look at anyway). This is documented differently: - toggles between making the qualifiers work on symbolic links (the default) and the files they point to There isn't a different condition whether the target exists or not. > The manual has: > > > ls -ld -- *(-@) > > > > lists all broken symbolic links, and > > That's consistent with GNU find's -xtype l But the behavior is not consistent with the stat system call, with the GNU stat utility (when using the --dereference option), and with zsh/stat. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)