Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:7488 comp.sys.mips:913 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!virtech!cpcahil From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: Wildcards don't work on NFS mounted file system Message-ID: <1990Aug03.030326.9796@virtech.uucp> Date: 3 Aug 90 03:03:26 GMT References: Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA Lines: 26 In article larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes: >Users logged in on a 386/ix system that has mounted a file system from >a MIPS fileserver cannot use wild cards in any of the directories that >are on the MIPS file system. This is a symptom of the program that you are using that is performing the wild card substitution is not NFS cognizant. Wild card substitution routines (like the old glob routine) must use directory reading routines that know about NFS because you can't open a directory for reading across NFS. What program are you running when it fails? I would hope that it is not the standard ISC shell. If I remember correctly, this works fine under ISC's sh. >I expect that this is a 386/ix bug because it is on the 386/ix machine >that the wild card expansion is taking place. This is a bug within the particular program (in this case running on you 386/ix machine), not in the OS itself. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170