On 5/19/2011 12:56 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
> [moving from embargoed to open discussion]
>
> On 5/19/2011 9:53 AM, Joe Orton wrote:
>
>> b) glibc does not match the pattern "\/" against "/" with FNM_PATHNAME
>> set, but APR does:
>>
>> 0000000052585e22 apr_fnmatch(".*\//", ".//", 2) = 0, glibc=1
>
> Do we want to change this behavior? We must still be careful of the
> special meaning of '/' but we can force a mismatch by dropping the
> logic at line 218-219, which quietly ignores the leading backslash.
> Other tests for \/ must remain.
I would argue to keep our behavior, based on typical shell behavior;
$ ls lib\/.svn
tab completion or pressing enter here both work just fine, and this
should be reflected by our APR_FNM_PATHNAME behavior as well.
