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Re: Following symlinks in globstar
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Chris Down |
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Re: Following symlinks in globstar |
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Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:30:53 +0800 |
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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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