On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:02:31 +0200, Chris Down wrote: > As we're probably all aware, `globstar' follows symlinks when doing > recursive traversal. Is it possible to, at some future version, have > an option that enables/disables (I guess enables by default for > backwards compatibility) following symlinks? This can be quite > irritating when trying to traverse procfs filesystems especially.
It's been nearly half a year since I sent this (as yet unreplied to) message, and I still wonder what people's thoughts are on having some path to better globstar modularity. I still think the best path is to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, and to provide a shell option to disable globstar traversing symlinks. Another option is to break backwards compatibility and do the (arguably) more logically expected thing by having ** not traverse symlinks, and *** traverse symlinks. That's what a few people I know propose, but I think it is quite probably that the symlink-traversing properties of ** are used in production now. I am not so worried about the method used to "fix" globstar -- whether we keep backwards compatibility or not -- I am more concerned that we have at least *some* way of disabling what many people view as undesirable behaviour.
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