> On Aug 10, 2023, at 11:11 AM, Austin Group Bug Tracker via austin-group-l at > The Open Group <[email protected]> wrote: > > User Reference: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01176.html > Section: Pathname Expansion > Page Number: 2384 > Line Number: 76271 > Interp Status: --- > Final Accepted Text: https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1228#c5889
I'm all for this change, in fact, requiring systems to *not* include . and .. as glob results (someday) would be great. However, could this be misinterpreted as allowing a tool to respond to "./*.pdf" as *removing* the "./" when returning a match? That would be a disaster, because prepending "./" is a widely-recommended way to avoid security problems from globs (e.g., to counter filenames that start with "-"). Here's an example, I would recommend using "./*.pdf" and never "*.pdf". Some programs support "--" but not all do (correctly); prepending "./" is universally supported. --- David A. Wheeler
