Why change posix/globtest.sh?

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> H J Lu writes:

HJ> On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 07:36:02PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>> 
>> >  ${elf_objpfx}${rtld_installed_name} --library-path ${library_path} \
>> >  ${common_objpfx}posix/globtest -q -t "$testdir" "~"$USER |
>> >  sort > $testout
>> > -eval echo ~$USER | cmp - $testout || result=1
>> > +# Some shell incorrectly(?) convert ~/ into // if ~ expands to /.
>> > +if test ~/ = //; then
>> > +    echo / | cmp - $testout || result=1
>> > +else
>> > +    echo ~/ | cmp - $testout || result=1
>> > +fi
>> > 
>> > UIlrich, I believe you applied the patch at the wrong place. Could
>> > you please fix it?
>> 
>> Why should this be wrong?  Some shells expand ~/ for $HOME == / to //.
>> We expect / and therefore we have to have a special test.
>> 

HJ> This is the patch for glibc 2.1. Please read PR libc/1690 and glibc
HJ> 2.2. I didn't figure it out until I read PR libc/1690 and glibc 2.2.

You're right - I've fixed and commited this for 2.2 now.

Andreas
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