shell and glibc (Re: Inconsistent parameter expansion)

[Oleg Verych <olecom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The fnmatch(3) function is now correct as far as I know but
> glob(3) still seems to be broken.

It seems, small glibc team cannot do much in areas without interest.

Very surprising for me was recent discovery of big performance penalty of
the most simple '^$' regexp; it turned to be glibc RE library problem:

http://bugs.debian.org/475474
(bonus: 4 ways of doing one thing with `sed`, not with `perl`:)

Thus, i think shell -- basic userspace tool, must be reliable with its
implementation. There are many other ways of size reduction (more on
that latter).
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