Re: expand: Fix glibc glob(3) support

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 01:36:54PM +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> 
> I thought that was an optimisation to avoid unnecessary file system access,
> to ensure that simple commands such as "echo ok" don't bother looking for
> files named "echo" and "ok" in the current directory.
> 
> It indeed doesn't work, but I took that to be a glibc bug.

Good point.  It's been so long since I last discovered this :)

I tried making it work, and it looks like it should work with
the latest glibc as they have just fixed a critical issue that
would otherwise require nasty hacks to work around:

	https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=866

So I'll give it some time to filter through before trying it again.

Thanks,
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