In article <20101201051226.ga11...@marx.bitnet>, Jukka Ruohonen <jruoho...@iki.fi> wrote: >On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:52:15AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> That's nice, but most of our globbing code does not support [:foo:] and >> supports tilde and brace expansion. We need to make a note of those and/or >> fix them. > >My bad then, I thought globbing, as described in the page, was unambiguous >and/or standardized behavior. I will try to fix these (but the question is >how much can be said generally, which is the aim of this section 7 page).
Not your bad, we should really fix all the implementations of globbing code to behave approximately the same way. OpenBSD has done quite a bit of that. christos
