[bug #52018] suggestion: test case for glob with dangling symlink

[Paul Eggert]

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                 Summary: suggestion: test case for glob with dangling symlink
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: eggert
            Submitted on: Thu 14 Sep 2017 07:07:30 AM PDT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
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                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
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           Triage Status: None

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Details:

This message follows up on my recent bug report "Do not assume glibc glob
internals"
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2017-09/msg00014.html>.

In later discussion on libc-alpha, Adhemerval Zanella noted "make tests itself
does not trigger ... this issue (running make tests with a newer glibc shows
no regression), so it would be good also if make adds a newer tests to stress
it." See:

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-09/msg00616.html

This is a good suggestion so I thought I'd pass it along. It'll require 'make'
to upgrade to a recent Gnulib version of glob.c, which is a good thing for
other reasons (we've been fixing some bugs and are likely to fix more soon).




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