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

[Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Herbert Xu:

> 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.

I believe this has been reported upstream here:

  <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25659>

(But I have not reveiwed this particular bug thread here, sorry.)