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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: glob qualifier '-' doesn't work correctly on dangling symlinks
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:00:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7bq=RKmenz7NNM5hxPvgqtu3307TS+Th8_kKm03QJz2OA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200413142257.orwzb4jrgmf7gpoi@chazelas.org>

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:23 AM Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
> >   -e  pathname
> >     True if pathname resolves to an existing directory entry.
> >     False if pathname cannot be resolved.
> >
> > BTW, I don't know how zsh behaves on "[[ -e pathname ]]" in case of
> > error other than ENOENT in the pathname resolution, but this should
> > be documented (and ditto for the other conditional expressions).
> [...]
>
> The mention of "directory entry" is misleading here. It's really
> about a "file" more than a "directory entry" as stat() gets you
> to the inode.

The problem is that "file" implies "not a directory", but a symlink
can refer to either.  And many users don't know the concept of "inode"
as separate from "directory entry".

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-13 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-11 15:15 Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-11 17:34 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-11 19:17   ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-11 20:37     ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-11 23:48       ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12  1:21         ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-12  2:17           ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12  7:09             ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-12 14:25               ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 17:34                 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-12 23:38                   ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-13 14:22                     ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-13 15:00                       ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2020-04-13 21:41                       ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-14  6:18                         ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-14 12:02                           ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-14 12:38                             ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-15  0:44                               ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-15  9:17                                 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-14 17:59                           ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 12:48   ` Peter Stephenson
2020-04-12 14:31     ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 15:49       ` Peter Stephenson
2020-04-12 23:07         ` Vincent Lefevre

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