On 10/10/22 12:59 PM, Phi Debian wrote:
Ok, I agry that PATH_MAX should not be considered, because not defined
every where (OS's)
That's not the point. The point is that shell pattern matching is used in
contexts other than filename globbing, and the shell shouldn't broadly
impose a filename-only restriction on those uses.
Chet
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