Christopher Faylor wrote: | On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Chuck wrote: |>I don't know if this has been reported before | | It has. | The conclusion? | Don't use find on /proc.
Are there any plans to fix it? Thanks.
How?
'*' is by POSIX definition an invalid filename character.
'*' is by MS definition a valid registry key, which is mapped into a virtual file-system.
If the findutils maintainer decides to add a /proc/registry patch to make '*' a valid filename char, other fileutils should be fixed also.
ls and cat at least.
So it should be better "fixed" in cygwin. How?
Make it a valid file character there?
How not to break all other file-,find-,text-,shellutils then, which will have to deal with this and glob expansion.
Replace it by some other character? Which? -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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