Difference between ". list * %" and ". list * *"

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
> > > Sure, but should a 'list' command ever return the same mailbox name multiple
> > > times. It just seems wrong to me...
> >
> >
> > Oh, I missed that.  I don't know why its doing that.  Rob, is this
> > another side effect of recent changes, or has this always been broken?
>
> I suspect it is a side effect, I don't remember seeing this before for
> commands like:
>
> x list "" "*%"
>
> I would guess this has to do with the backtracking code (it appears to
> affect LSUB as well).  Then again, it is likely that the glob code isn't
> doing something correct (I believe this should compress itself to x list
> "" "*" in glob_init_suppress, but x list "" "*" works fine)

It does indeed, and I just fixed it in CVS:

https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/cyrus/imap/imapd.c.diff?r1=1.455&r2=1.456

Running through a large suite of testcases did not reveal any other impact
on LIST operation.

-Rob

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