[PATCH 3/9] posix: Allow glob to match dangling symlinks [BZ #866]

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Sun Sep 10 17:13:00 GMT 2017


Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> I would prefer to avoid adding a new flag,

Me too.

> Another option is to add a compat glob symbol with previous semantic
> (without
> actually bumping _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION).

I like this option better than what I suggested. How about if you propose a 
patch along those lines?

PS. I sent in a bug report for GNU Make about a half hour ago. See:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2017-09/msg00014.html



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