[PATCH v5 1/3] Introduce gdb_tilde_expand

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Tuesday, October 03 2017, Pedro Alves wrote:

> 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, pushed.

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