Stephane Chazelas <[email protected]> wrote: > So pdksh/zsh globs are currently only non-compliant in that they > may not match what readdir() returns, but in anycase, > applications cannot make much assumption on whether "." or ".." > should be returned, so that compliance issue is not very > relevant. Which is why it should do little harm to change the > spec to explicitely allow their behaviour. > > I even wonder if anyone would _object_ to POSIX *recommending* > (if not mandating) the pdksh/zsh behaviour.
I would support to mandate this, but I fear that we could not rely on this behavior to be omnipresent for many years. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
