On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Ben Bleything wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov wrote: >> i __think__ this could happen if /tmp were a soft link... ?? > > Yup! This bites me all the time on osx: > > folio ~/projects > ls /tmp > /tmp@ > > folio ~/projects > ls -l /tmp > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Dec 12 15:34 /tmp@ -> private/tmp > > folio ~/projects > ls /tmp/ > 1f7ead7c295b42d3030a746438a8d222 2285/ ... > > Ben moral: path = File.expand_path path ;-) -a -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. - the dalai lama