[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48105] function "glob" oddities with trailing "/"

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #48105 (project octave):

And I can confirm if I write a short C program using the standard glob
function, it also fails to return a matching entry for a matched broken
symlink:


#include <glob.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  glob_t found;
  int status;
  int i;

  status = glob ("foo*", 0, NULL, &found);
  printf ("glob returns %d\n", status);

  if (status == 0)
    for (i = 0; i < found.gl_pathc; i++)
      {
        printf ("match[%d]: %s\n", i, found.gl_pathv[i]);
      }

  return 0;
}


While Perl and Python both do return matches for broken symlinks, so they are
working around or reimplementing glob to fix this defect.

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