Re: Bug#976865: Fwd: Bug#974900: dash removes trailing slash from script arguments

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2020-12-10 13:56, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Can you please describe more precisely what is the problem with glob(3)?
> 
> It's stripping trailing slashes from the pattern, even when the
> name in question is a regular file.
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dash/patch/20201116025222.GA28742@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

That's the dash symptoms. glob(3) takes a pattern and just returns the
paths matching the pattern, as they are named on the filesystem. That
said, the option GLOB_MARK can return a trailing slash for all matched
path that are a directory.

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