Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It may be. It looks like the change was intentional > (http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/sysdeps/generic/glob.c?rev=1.52&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=glibc), > but I still disagree.
I agree with you. Historically, the "*" pattern in the shell has always matched dangling links. Otherwise "rm *" wouldn't work as desired. > I ran your test program on NetBSD 1.6.1 and it does return the > broken symlink. OK, let's argue that BSD is right and Solaris is wrong, and glibc should be fixed. If necessary we can take this to the POSIX committee. In the mean time we can submit the three patches. I'll take a look at doing that. _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
