Re: Bug with double slashes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:01:03 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> 
> Less obvious is which of the various ways it could be fixed is the right
> way.  Should we stop "cleaning" these paths altogether, to work around
> the bug in glibc glob()?  I think if we removed the GLOB_NOCHECK flag
> from glob() then handled the GLOB_NOMATCH error correctly we could avoid
> that problem.  Should we go back to globbing the patterns?  Seems like
> overkill to me, and potentially wrong.

Might as well bring some glibc expert on board for this discussion.
(Sorry, I don't have a recommendation who might that be.)  They could
put the glibc behavior into perspective, and also advise about other
implementations of `glob'.