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GNU ls does not show files on different XenixNet filesystem

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From: Kayvan Sylvan
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 01:20
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GNU ls does not print filenames on different XenixNet filesystem.

XenixNet is a kludgily (is that a word?) implemented NFS that has the
following syntax for filenames:

	//hostname/foo/bar/xxx

This would be /foo/bar/xxx on host `hostname'.

With //guinan/tmp containing foo and bar:

	mrspoc:576$ /usr/local/gnu/ls //guinan/tmp
	mrspoc:577$ /bin/ls //guinan/tmp
	bar
	foo

I'm running Xenix 2.3.2 on an Everex Step 25 (386) box.

Semi-related note #1: Until recently, bash did not do globbing and
file completion across XenixNet filesystems but it works perfectly
now.

Semi-related note #2: The Xenix-net convention clashes with GNU
Emacs's assumption that `//goo' means disregard everything before the
`//' and make the input line be `/goo'. This means that Emacs can't be
used to edit files across XenixNet filesystems.

			---Kayvan
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