Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/find

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Oct 22,  3:51am, zafer%gmx.org@localhost ("Zafer Aydogan") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/find

| I were referring to my example in the PR.
| 
| $ find /usr/share/ -name Berlin
| /usr/share//zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
| $ uname -a
| NetBSD  3.99.10 NetBSD 3.99.10 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Oct 17 19:49:55 CEST 2005 
| zafer%moe.aydogan.net@localhost:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
| $
| Please notice the double slash behind share.
| Why does /usr/share/ have a trailing slash ? 
| Because it is a directory and /bin/ksh completes it with Tab. 
| 
| But, the same on FreeBSD shows:
| 
| $ find /usr/share/ -name Berlin
| /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
| $ uname -a
| FreeBSD vim.aydogan.net 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Sun Oct  9 20:32:57 UTC
| 2005     root%x64.samsco.home@localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
| $
| 
| and Linux:
| 
| $ find /usr/share/ -name Berlin
| /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin
| /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Europe/Berlin
| /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Europe/Berlin
| $ uname -a
| Linux eva 2.6.6-040601 #1 SMP Tue Jun 1 18:32:50 CEST 2004 i686 i686 i386
| GNU/Linux
| $
| 
| etc.etc. with Solaris, AIX, IRIX, HP-UX.
| Please notice one slash after share in the results and trailing slash in the
| find argument.
| If I have one trailing slash, why does NetBSD show two ?
| And if I use two, it shows three. 
| 
| 
| > 
| > I don't see that:
| > 
| > # uname -a
| > Linux xxx 2.6.11-ts6 #10 SMP Wed Aug 17 20:22:03 GMT 2005 i686 athlon i
| 
| What really bugs me is, that this is a completely normal behaviour (in my
| opinion). And I cannot remember any canonical Problems on Linux neither
| FreeBSD since years. 
| So I was surprised to see this on NetBSD. 

That particular one is easy to fix; they appear to do something like:

if (path ends with a slash)
        printf("%s%s\n", path, rest);
else
        printf("%s/%s\n", path, rest);

But that is a special case, it is not path normalization which they don't do.
They are not really trimming trailing slashes or anything. We can do the same
too.

christos