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Re: es bug

To: tromey@busco.lanl.gov
Subject: Re: es bug
From: Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 15:47:35 -0400
Cc: es@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
In-reply-to: Message from tromey@busco.lanl.gov of Thu, 22 Sep 1994 13:56:43 -0400 (id <9409221756.AA07167@busco.lanl.gov>)
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Reply-to: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

> |I've noticed that "*/" expands to all file names with "/" appended,
> |instead of just the names of directories.  I think this is a bug --
> |all the other glob code I've used does the right thing (expands to
> |just directories).

It's not necessarily a bug, because it does not follow from the simple
definition of globbing.  You have to handle the case of a null
pathname specially with an extra check; es does not.

Chet

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

References:
- Re: es bug
  - From: tromey@busco.lanl.gov (Tom Tromey)

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