On Oct 13, 11:29am, jus...@specialbusservice.com (Justin Cormack) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/tests/lib/libc/gen
| Not sure about this. See | http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_03_05 | | "The special characters '.', '*', '[', and '\' (period, asterisk, | left-bracket, and backslash, respectively) shall lose their special | meaning within a bracket expression." fnmatch patterns are not BRe's (for example '.' is not special to fnmatch expressions, and '?' is missing from above); but the first 3 characters have no special meaning, that's common to both. | So I think the original version of the test is in fact correct with a | single \ in the actual string within the bracket expression. This test | passes in a very few implementations. I might be wrong though... If that was the case, there would be no way to quote something inside a bracket expression, so you could never have a '/' or ']' in a bracket expression. I think that is a defect. Here's is a case where complying to an ambiguous standard, makes functionality worse, and I would file a defect with ToG. christos
