Re: glob and fnmatch functions from gnulib

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Dec-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
|
| > As I recall, Windows allows either / or \ as directory separators, so
| > it seems like we should allow that in glob as well.  
| 
| Yes this should be supported, otherwise it will be of not much use.

I suppose we could leave the glob code alone and convert all \ to / on
input, and then undo that on output.  We can do that since we don't
use any \x escape sequences when we call glob.  Otherwise, I think we
will have to fix the glob function to not allow \x escape sequences at
all on Windows systems.

| > There might be
| > some other issues with \, like requiring that GLOB_NOESCAPE is always
| > true on Windows systems.
| > 
| > Anyway, I think it would be best to get these things fixed in gnulib
| > instead of maintaining our own patched glob code.
| 
| Who should/will take this to the gnulib list?

I can do it.

jwe