Theodore Ts'o writes:
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>
> I believe that there is a big difference between, "I want the file
> named /home/tytso/src/e2fsprogs/e2fsck/e2fsck.c", and "I remember
> vaguely that 5 years ago, I read a paper about the effects of high-fat
> diets on akida's, where the first name of the author was Tom". The
> first is a filename lookup. The second is a search. I would like
> better search tools for files in a filesystem, no doubt. But I would
> never, ever put a search that might return an ambiguous number of
> responses (that might change over time as more files are added to the
> filesystem) in a Makefile as a source file.
It is called "a directory". :) There is no crime in putting
cc src/*.c
into Makefile. I think that Hans' query-result-object denoting multiple
objects is more like directory than single regular file.
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>
> - Ted
Nikita.