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From: Chuck <skilover AT softhome DOT net>
Subject: Re: find crashes in /proc/registry
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:41:24 -0500
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
| On Dec 14 17:12, Reini Urban wrote:
|
|>'*' is by POSIX definition an invalid filename character.
|
|
| No, '*' is perfectly fine a character on POSIX systems.  It's not valid
| on FAT and NTFS usually.
|
| I'm wondering what the problem is.  Listing the "*" subdir works fine
for me:
|
| $ find /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/OpenWithList
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/shellex
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/InfoTip
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/QuickTip
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/AlwaysShowExt
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/TileInfo
| /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.323


What versions of Cygwin and find are you using. I'm using GNU find
version 4.2.10, and Cygwin kernel release 1.5.12(0.116/4/2).
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