kc3-lang/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/glob.texi

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  Date : 2017-08-31T14:34:25
  

  glob: match dangling symlinks
  
  This fixes a bug I inadvertently introduced to Gnulib when I
  merged glibc glob back into gnulib on 2007-10-16.  This fix is
  inspired by a patch proposed for glibc by Adhemerval Zanella in:
  https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-08/msg00446.html
  * doc/posix-functions/glob.texi: Update list of affected platforms.
  * lib/glob.c (__lstat64): New macro.
  (is_dir): New function.
  (glob, glob_in_dir): Match symlinks even if they are dangling.
  (link_stat, link_exists_p): Remove.  All uses removed.
  * lib/glob.in.h (__attribute_noinline__): Remove; no longer used.
  * m4/glob.m4 (gl_PREREQ_GLOB): Do not check for fstatat.
  * modules/glob (Depends-on): Remove dirfd.
  * modules/glob-tests (Depends-on): Add symlink.
  * tests/test-glob.c: Include errno.h, unistd.h.
  (BASE): New macro.
  (main): Test dangling symlinks, if symlinks are supported.
  

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• doc/posix-functions/glob.texi

• @node glob
  @section @code{glob}
  @findex glob
  
  POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/glob.html}
  
  Gnulib module: glob
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function is missing on some platforms:
  IRIX 5.3, mingw, MSVC 14, BeOS.
  @item
  This function does not list symbolic links to nonexistent files among the results,
  on some platforms:
  glibc 2.26, AIX 7.2, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11 2011-11.
  @item
  On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may not
  work correctly on huge directories larger than 2 GB.
  (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  Some platforms may store additional flags in the @code{gl_flags} field.
  @end itemize
  

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