On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:41 -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > When the GLOB_APPEND flag is passed to glob(), the call is supposed to > tack new results on to the ones already represented in the glob_t passed > in. If there is an error, partial results may be added, but the > original glob_t should definitely be left alone. > > This is not respected in at least one part of glibc's glob > implementation. In this particular place, globfree() is called on the > glob_t regardless of the flags passed. Since glob() is implemented > recursively with GLOB_APPEND added to the flags, this can affect the > results returned even from a call where GLOB_APPEND is not set. > > The following patch fixes the one instance of this behavior I found.
Thanks for the patch. Do you have a testcase that demonstrates the effect of the bug? p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]