On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 5:48 PM Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > Seems like it's not so much that the patch was rejected; indeed they > seem to agree there's a bug. But they wanted more work on it and it > sort of fell apart. I have no idea how much effort it would be to push > hard enough to get a change merged.
i think, people use shell globbing much more often than $(wildcard) or glibc's glob impl. bash's glob impl is derived from the same old rms impl and has the bug fixed. And this allows the situation to continue. regards, Dmitry