find crashes in /proc/registry

[Reini Urban]

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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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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