Found a Find.find() bug?

[robertlaferla]

I was trying out Find.find() today and found that if you pass it a directory without a trailing slash, it doesn't traverse the directory. This seems like a bug to me. Is it? If so, how do I report it?

e.g.

require 'find'
Find.find("/tmp/") do |path|
puts path
end

vs.

require 'find'
Find.find("/tmp/") do |path|
puts path
end

 

[ara.t.howard]

I was trying out Find.find() today and found that if you pass it a
directory without a trailing slash, it doesn't traverse the directory.
This
seems like a bug to me. Is it? If so, how do I report it?

e.g.

require 'find'
Find.find("/tmp/") do |path|
puts path
end

vs.

require 'find'
Find.find("/tmp/") do |path|
puts path
end

Unless I'm missing something, your two examples are exactly
the same.

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... ??

-a

 

[Philip Hallstrom]

I was trying out Find.find() today and found that if you pass it a
directory without a trailing slash, it doesn't traverse the directory.
This
seems like a bug to me. Is it? If so, how do I report it?

e.g.

require 'find'
Find.find("/tmp/") do |path|
puts path
end

vs.

require 'find'
Find.find("/tmp/") do |path|
puts path
end

Unless I'm missing something, your two examples are exactly
the same.

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... ??

It can using normal OS commands so I'd imagine the same is true with
Ruby...

 

[Ben Bleything]

i __think__ this could happen if /tmp were a soft link... ??

Yup! This bites me all the time on osx:

folio ~/projects > ls /tmp
/tmp@

folio ~/projects > ls -l /tmp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Dec 12 15:34 /tmp@ -> private/tmp

folio ~/projects > ls /tmp/
1f7ead7c295b42d3030a746438a8d222 2285/ ...

Ben

 

[ara.t.howard]

Yup! This bites me all the time on osx:

folio ~/projects > ls /tmp
/tmp@

folio ~/projects > ls -l /tmp
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Dec 12 15:34 /tmp@ -> private/tmp

folio ~/projects > ls /tmp/
1f7ead7c295b42d3030a746438a8d222 2285/ ...

Ben

moral:

path = File.expand_path path

;-)

-a