From: Garance A Drosehn <drosihn@...>
Date: 2007-02-16T07:01:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a Find.find() bug?

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On 2/15/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> > I am running ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i386-freebsd6]
> >
> > And I tried a quick test
> > of:    Find.find("/tmp")
> > vs:    Find.find("/tmp/")
> >
> > And I seemed to get the same result from both.  In my case, both
> > tests found 131 directories and 27 "other things" (ie, "not
> directories").
> >
> > What platform are you running ruby on?
> > Which version of ruby are you running?
>
> i __think__ this could happen if /tmp were a soft link... ??


Ooo.  Good catch!

If I switch to testing this on MacOS 10, then '/tmp' is a symlink
to the directory '/private/tmp'.  And in that case, I get:

found 1 dirs, 0 other types in '/tmp'.

vs

found 10 dirs, 27 other types in '/tmp/'.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =             drosihn@gmail.com
Senior Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA

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