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Re: extendedglob recursion (/)#

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From: Eric Cook <llua@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: extendedglob recursion (/)#
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:22:39 -0500
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On 02/25/2015 07:51 PM, Eric Cook wrote:
> Playing around in IRC with the command:
> setopt extendedglob; print (/)# # or /usr/(/)#, etc.
>
> zsh starts to recurse / repeatedly and eventually(errors and) prints /
> // ///...
>
> Mikachu | % pl (/)#|wc -l
> Mikachu |  glob.c:276: BUG: statfullpath(): pathname too long
>
> What should the 'proper' behavior be? Recursing into directories below /
> or just printing `/'
> I am in favor of the latter personally.
>
>
On second thought, recursing into the directories below /wouldn't make
much sense with that pattern.
So nevermind about the question, just a bug report.

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- extendedglob recursion (/)#
  - From: Eric Cook

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