> From: Paul Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:01:03 -0400
> Cc: [email protected]
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> 
> Less obvious is which of the various ways it could be fixed is the right
> way.  Should we stop "cleaning" these paths altogether, to work around
> the bug in glibc glob()?  I think if we removed the GLOB_NOCHECK flag
> from glob() then handled the GLOB_NOMATCH error correctly we could avoid
> that problem.  Should we go back to globbing the patterns?  Seems like
> overkill to me, and potentially wrong.

Might as well bring some glibc expert on board for this discussion.
(Sorry, I don't have a recommendation who might that be.)  They could
put the glibc behavior into perspective, and also advise about other
implementations of `glob'.


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