In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109222347420.394-100000@rfhpc8317>,
Hubert Feyrer wrote:

>What shell is that?! Sounds broken to me...

It's bash 2.0.5 from pkgsrs. csh does the same thingh.

Well, with or without the trailing slash, it behaves like this.

$ cd work.i386/fetchmail-5.9.0
$ head ../../patches          -> tabbing here gives me "patches "
$ head ../../patches/patch-a  -> tabbing here gives me "patches/patch-aa"
$ head ../../patches/patch-aa
head: ../../patches/patch-aa: No such file or directory

bash bug ? Oh, btw, I do _not_ traverse filesystems, if it matters

Output from ktrace :

>  2600 head     CALL  open(0xbfbfdb69,0,0x1b6)
>  2600 head     NAMI  "../../patches/patch-aa"
>  2600 head     RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory

Weird. Seems to be in libc...

Well in fact I greatly exaggered the impact of this supposed missing
slash. All it does is to affect graphical FTP client on my development
platform (Mac OS X) -> show a file icon and don't want to CWD in it.

Not that serious :-)

Gute Nacht

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