[5596] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.0F: tcsh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Jul 23 13:25:20 1990
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 13:25:01 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: pit-manager
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.0F
Display type: apa16
megapel
What were you trying to do?
Glob a bunch of symbolic links by matching them to a string
with an asterisk in it.
What's wrong:
The shell claims there are no matches, even though there are,
because the symbolic links don't point to anything. It
appears to be doing stat instead of lstat or something. Look:
pit-manager% mkdir foo
pit-manager% ln -s bar foo/foo
pit-manager% echo */foo
echo: No match.
pit-manager% touch foo/bar
pit-manager% echo */foo
foo/foo
What should have happened:
It should match symbolic links when globbing, even if they
don't point to existing files.
jik
