Re: texi2dvi: Support bibunits

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:55:46PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >  > What does it mean ``some patterns are likely not to match''?
> > 
> > It means that I added bu[0-9]*.aux, which might not match at all.  In
> > which case, depending upon the shell you might have an error, get the
> > pattern back as result, or have the pattern expand to nothing.
> 
> Really?  I always thought that Bourne shells behave in the same
> consistent way in these cases, and that it's csh family that deviates.

I don't see any bugs in Akim's code, yet I think Eli is right that there
is no need to use ls.

Bourne shells indeed leave the pattern as the expansion.
(Bash has features like `nullglob' and `GLOBIGNORE' but even if you set
them, they don't seem to be exported to other executable scrpts.)

So I think the code is correct, at least if test supports `-s'.
(And on systems without `test -s'--if they existed--you'd see some error
messages, yet the function still returns correct result.)

Karl, can I apply the patch attached to this mail?

Stepan

texinfo-20050224-no-ls.patch
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