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

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 08:58:37AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes but it's really a bug in glob(3).  It should really return
a no-match for the case in question, rather than matching and then
returning a filename without the slash.

IOW the pattern "foo\/" should not match a regular file foo.

Note that the problem doesn't occur for "foo/".

Cheers,
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