[PATCH v5 1/3] Introduce gdb_tilde_expand

[Pedro Alves]

On 09/29/2017 11:58 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> Currently, whenever we want to handle paths provided by the user and
> perform tilde expansion on GDB, we rely on "tilde_expand", which comes
> from readline.  This was enough for our use cases so far, but the
> situation will change when we start dealing with paths on gdbserver as
> well, which is what the next patches implement.
> 
> Unfortunately it is not possible to use "tilde_expand" in this case
> because gdbserver doesn't use readline.  For that reason I decided to
> implement a new "gdb_tilde_expand" function, which is basically a
> wrapper for "glob" and its GNU extension, GLOB_TILDE_CHECK.  With the
> import of the "glob" module from gnulib, this is a no-brainer.
> 

OK.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves