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

[Florian Weimer]

On 09/13/2017 11:14 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Although that's clever, it is a gratuitous source-code incompatibility 
> with BSD, which is not a good thing. To some extent it's just 
> GLOB_FOLLOW and GLOB_NOFOLLOW in disguise, and disguise is not a good 
> thing in APIs. So I think I still prefer the compat symbol approach.

If the BSDs are currently source-code-compatible, why doesn't GNU make 
fail there already?

Thanks,
Florian