findutils still broken

[Chuck]

Dave Korn wrote:

> 
>   Presumably the reason that this behaviour is new is that there used to be
> a bug that stopped it even attempting to recurse those dirs, because nothing
> with '*' in it could ever be a valid filename.
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK


So there where does the problem lie? Is it that cygwin doesn't support
"*" as a file name? Or is it a limitation of Windows that is inherited
by Cygwin? IIRC "*" is a perfectly valid Posix file name and I can
create it on any other Posix compliant platform by simply running "touch
\*".

Find version 4.1.7 and prior had no problems handling it. I am still
using the older version for that reason.

	Chuck


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