Re: Following symlinks in globstar

[Stephane Chazelas]

2014-02-04 09:23:21 -0500, Chet Ramey:
> 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.
[...]

That looks a lot better indeed. Thanks Chet.

regards,
Stephane