On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Charles Campbell <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Please try the following on a linux system:
>
> mkdir PROBLEM
> cd PROBLEM
> ln -s file1 file2
>
> Doing ls shows file2 exists (but it points to a non-existing file).
>
> Fire up vim:
>
> vim -u NONE -N
> :echo string(glob("*"))
>
> shows that glob() returns an empty string, whereas it should show
> file2. "file2" is a symbolic link, which means that its a file that has
> contents (which happens to be a path to a non-existing file).
>
This bug has been around for years and years on Mac OSX, going *at least*
all the way back to OSX 10.4. It's driven me absolutely nuts.
I hope it gets fixed. A symlink that points to nothing is still a file.
-Manny
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