On 01/23/2015 03:00 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > -------------------------------------------------- > Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlow...@ish.de> wrote: > (23/01/2015 10:54) >> >> It's not just bash. The same happens in my home-grown shell. Starting >> with /dev/fd/3 opendir succeeds giving (only the opendir-entries): > > Maybe it's because: > > 3 -> /proc/3008/fd/ > > which recurses into /dev/fd again?
Yep. You'd get similar behavior for: ln -s . dot then trying to do a recursive listing of ./dot/** Without some form of symlink recursion detection (aka "have we seen the inode of this directory higher up in the tree?"), this will affect any symlink-to-directory hierarchy loop. Might be worth reporting it upstream to see if bash is willing to add an inode hash table to prevent infinite recursion on ** expansions across symlink loops, but as it is not a cygwin-specific issue, I'm not going to try and do anything about it downstream in the cygwin build of bash. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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