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Re: find crashes in /proc/registry


Chuck schrieb:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
| On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Chuck wrote:
|>I don't know if this has been reported before
|
| It has.
| The conclusion?
| Don't use find on /proc.

Are there any plans to fix it? Thanks.

How?
'*' is by POSIX definition an invalid filename character.
'*' is by MS definition a valid registry key, which is mapped into a virtual file-system.


If the findutils maintainer decides to add a /proc/registry patch to make '*' a valid filename char, other fileutils should be fixed also.
ls and cat at least.


So it should be better "fixed" in cygwin. How?
Make it a valid file character there?
How not to break all other file-,find-,text-,shellutils then, which will have to deal with this and glob expansion.


Replace it by some other character? Which?
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