-------------------------------------------------- Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: (23/01/2015 15:04)
> 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 I think ksh93 just does not follow synlinks when doing globstar. At least not the cygwin-version. Guess that's what I'll do as well. -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
