Glob error?

Steve Watt steve at Watt.COM
Sat Nov 8 10:51:17 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:08:10PM -0600, Paul A. Procacci wrote:
> 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:

Well, it went away with my update to 6.4-PRE.  Must've been a bad time to
grab a -stable snapshot.


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