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Re: fnmatch() behaves oddly with *s and FNM_LEADING_DIR
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:
> Sorry, I don't follow. From tar's point of view, it would be OK if
> fnmatch misbehaved only in areas that tar doesn't exercise. But
> Debian bug 59829 came from someone who used tar, and found that tar
> misbehaves because fnmatch misbehaves.
I'm not reading the Debian bug reports an their database. If there is
a problem with tar in the way it uses fnmatch then I expect a report
coming from the tar maintainer and not some random user. I'll not
spend a second verifying the claims.
If you think that tar behaves incorrectly then provide a test case.
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