On 1/25/14 6:11 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2014-01-21 10:19:10 -0500, Chet Ramey:
> [...]
>>> 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.
[...]
> I agree with Chris that the bash behaviour here is not
> desirable. There's a number of articles on usenet or
> unix.stackexchange.com (many by me sorry,
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/search?q=bash+globstar+symlink)
> that say that the bash behaviour is broken in that regard and
> that globstar from other shells should be used instead.
I put in a tentative change; we will see how it works.
Chet
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