Wildcards don't work on NFS mounted file system

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <LARRY.90Aug2091559 at focsys.uucp> larry at focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes:
>Users logged in on a 386/ix system that has mounted a file system from
>a MIPS fileserver cannot use wild cards in any of the directories that
>are on the MIPS file system.

This is a symptom of the program that you are using that is performing
the wild card substitution is not NFS cognizant.  Wild card substitution
routines (like the old glob routine) must use directory reading
routines that know about NFS because you can't open a directory for 
reading across NFS.

What program are you running when it fails?  I would hope that it is not
the standard ISC shell.  If I remember correctly, this works fine under
ISC's sh.

>I expect that this is a 386/ix bug because it is on the 386/ix machine
>that the wild card expansion is taking place. 

This is a bug within the particular program (in this case running on you
386/ix machine), not in the OS itself.


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