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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 1995 23:56:29 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: man(1) bug
Message-ID:  <199504112156.XAA07054@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950409151300.23082A-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> from "Brian Tao" at Apr 9, 95 03:33:56 pm

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As Brian Tao wrote:
> 
> Context diff for the non-kludgy fix follows:

Thanks.  Commited.

> > 2) Separate out the 'kludgy' fix from the not-so-kludgy so we can
> >    install the good fix and try and improve on the second. :)
> 
>     The fix would be fairly trivial if we don't think we'll ever need
> the filename globbing.  There's a bug somewhere in glob.c that does
> not realize the [ metacharacter is missing the matching ].  I see the
> code for the check in a couple of places, but either it isn't being
> called, or it is returning the wrong value.

*That* code seems to be not used.  However, i think i've found and
fixed the bug.  Thank'ya for pointing it out!

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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