Debian Bug report logs - #503697
completing paths in cd with symlinks is not right

Reply or subscribe to this bug.

Toggle useless messages

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@riseup.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: completing paths in cd with symlinks is not right

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:08:55 -0200

Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: minor

$ mkdir father
$ mkdir father/son
$ ln -s father/son
$ cd son
$ cd ../f<TAB>

It should complete father, but it doesn't.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          3.2-4      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #12 received at 503697-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

To: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@riseup.net>

Cc: 503697-quiet@bugs.debian.org, Bash-Completion Developers <bash-completion-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#503697: completing paths in cd with symlinks is not right

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:29:52 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

tags 503697 confirmed
thanks

Hello Marco,

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:08:55 -0200, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:

> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 20080705
> Severity: minor
> 
> $ mkdir father
> $ mkdir father/son
> $ ln -s father/son
> $ cd son
> $ cd ../f<TAB>
> 
> It should complete father, but it doesn't.

I'm confirming this bug, but I don't know whether this is a bash-completion's
or bash's bug.
I'll try to have a look, but I believe this is bash's.

Kindly,
David

-- 
 . ''`.  Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino
 : :'  : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/
 `. `'`  GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page
   `-   2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Message #21 received at 503697@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@debian.org>

To: 503697 <503697@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#503697 closed by David Paleino <dapal@debian.org> (reply to dapal@debian.org) (Closing bugs)

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:04:51 -0300

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi.

Excerpts from owner's message of Seg Abr 25 09:06:32 -0300 2011:
(...)
> these (#267060 and #506973) are bugs in bash, which it seem aren't going to be
> fixed anyway, so I'm closing them.

Maybe they should left open, to avoid someone from reporting them again.  In
case the bug is fixed they can be closed, but until then, I don't see a problem
in leaving them open.

What do you think?

Greetings.
(...)
-- 
marcot
http://marcot.eti.br/

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Message #26 received at 503697@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>

To: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@debian.org>

Cc: 503697@bugs.debian.org, bash@packages.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#503697: closed by David Paleino <dapal@debian.org> (reply to dapal@debian.org) (Closing bugs)

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:22:12 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

reopen 503697
reassign 503697 bash

Quick summary for bash maintainers: plain directory completion gets broken when
dealing with symlinks.

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:04:51 -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:

> [..]
> 
> Maybe they should left open, to avoid someone from reporting them again.  In
> case the bug is fixed they can be closed, but until then, I don't see a
> problem in leaving them open.
> 
> What do you think?

Probably yes, but reassigned to bash, which I'm doing now.

Kindly,
David

-- 
 . ''`.   Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino
 : :'  : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/
 `. `'`  GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal
   `-   2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.