Re: directory search fails!

[ali hagigat]

The source of confusion in the section, "4.4.3 How Directory Searches
are Performed",  is that at the items 1 and 4, it talks about 'target'
but these two targets are different. When reading search algorithm, at
item 1, one imagines a rule which has a target, some prerequisites and
some commands.
Then in Item 4 it again talks about 'target', while this new target is
actually the prerequisite of the target of Item 1.
The distinction of target and prerequisite has not been indicated
well. One asks from himself after reading the text, the target of what
rule? The prerequisite of  what rule?

Another source of confusion is : " any prerequisite lists which
contain this target"!!
It is better to be substituted with : "when this target is seen or
used as the prerequisite of other rules"
"any prerequisite lists which contain this target" may be interpreted
as, this target has been in some rules and the pathname found is used
for all prerequisites of such targets.