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Package: perl-base
Version: 5.24.1-3+deb9u2
Severity: normal
In the one argument form of File::Glob::bsd_glob, the default flags
are not documented. They appear to be GLOB_CSH, although the
documentation for GLOB_NOCASE talks about different behaviour on OSX,
ie the one argument form looks to be nearly equivalent to:
$homedir = bsd_glob('~gnat', GLOB_CSH); # !OSX
or
$homedir = bsd_glob('~gnat', GLOB_CSH | GLOB_NOCASE); # OSX
This has supposedly been fixed, but since I don't have the git tree handy, I
can't check what the supposed fix is:
http://grokbase.com/t/perl/perl5-porters/11cybe0n6v/perl-107296-file-glob-bsd-glob-undocumented-default-flags
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Tim Connors wrote:
> In the one argument form of File::Glob::bsd_glob, the default flags
> are not documented. They appear to be GLOB_CSH, although the
Hmm, it's there, just the summary is far less prominent than I feel it
should be (usage usually goes at the top, not examples):
"bsd_glob"
This function, which is included in the two export tags listed above,
takes one or two arguments. The first is the glob pattern. The second
is a set of flags ORed together. The available flags are listed below
under "POSIX FLAGS". If the second argument is omitted, "GLOB_CSH" (or
"GLOB_CSH|GLOB_NOCASE" on VMS and DOSish systems) is used by default.
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Tim Connors
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