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

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Mon Sep 11 14:34:00 GMT 2017


On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> Another option is to add a compat glob symbol with previous semantic 
> (without actually bumping _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION). It still won't 

To be clear, that's adding new symbol versions of glob and glob64 
everywhere, making all existing versions (some configurations already have 
more than one version of glob or glob64) ignore gl_lstat for 
compatibility.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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