Glob error?

Paul A. Procacci pprocacci at datapipe.com
Fri Nov 7 17:19:44 PST 2008


Steve Watt wrote:
> ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions )
>
> I did the following:
>
> % cd /tmp
> % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur
> % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur
> % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur
> % ls -ld */dir1/new
> drwxrwxr-x  2 steve  wheel  512 Nov  7 15:10 a/dir1/new/
> % 
>
> System is:
> FreeBSD wattres.Watt.COM 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #9: Tue May 13 16:06:34 PDT 2008     root at wattres.Watt.COM:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WATTRES  i386
>
> Source was probably updated a few hours before the kernel build time.
>
> Shell doesn't seem to matter (have tried both tcsh and bash).
>
> My cygwin installation seems to get it right.
>
> Known issue?  A quick glance for "glob" in gnats didn't show anything promising.
>   

I too can't reproduce this on any of my machines:

nat# mkdir -p {a,b,c}/dir/{cur,new}
nat# ls -ld */dir/*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  7 19:07 a/dir/cur
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  7 19:07 a/dir/new
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  7 19:07 b/dir/cur
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  7 19:07 b/dir/new
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  7 19:07 c/dir/cur
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  7 19:07 c/dir/new

Awefully strange indeed.


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