On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:28:34AM -0500, Chuck wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Reini Urban wrote: >| Chuck schrieb: >| >|> Christopher Faylor wrote: >|> | On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Chuck wrote: >|> |>I don't know if this has been reported before >|> | >|> | It has. >|> | The conclusion? >|> | Don't use find on /proc. >| >| >|> Are there any plans to fix it? Thanks. >| >| >| How? >| '*' is by POSIX definition an invalid filename character. >| '*' is by MS definition a valid registry key, which is mapped into a >| virtual file-system. >| >| If the findutils maintainer decides to add a /proc/registry patch to >| make '*' a valid filename char, other fileutils should be fixed also. >| ls and cat at least. >| >| So it should be better "fixed" in cygwin. How? >| Make it a valid file character there? >| How not to break all other file-,find-,text-,shellutils then, which will >| have to deal with this and glob expansion. >| >| Replace it by some other character? Which? > >Fixing it so that it least works in directories that don't have * as a >file name. Perhaps the directory I used as an example was a poor >choice.
To answer your question: No, there are no plans to fix "it". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/