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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Wildcards don't work on NFS mounted file system
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Date: 6 Aug 90 18:21:50 GMT
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In article <LARRY.90Aug2091559@focsys.uucp> you write:
>Is this an Interactive bug? Or is it a bug in the MIPS fileserver?

>Even emacs file name completion does not work. What a royal pain that
>is!

It's a bug in the client-side application software.  I expect you are
using csh rather than sh.  Programs that use the directory library with
opendir() and readdir() work with files over NFS, those that use the
traditional Sys V approach of opening the directory and reading 16-byte
chunks only work over NFS if the remote system happens to use Sys V
directory formats.  Interactive fixed sh for 2.0.2, but missed a bunch of
other programs.

If emacs has problems, you can probably fix it in a few minutes by finding
the place that it reads the directory and making it use opendir()
and readdir().

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl