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Message-ID: <20140806062759.GG22308@port70.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:28:00 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: ????????? <g548462@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: fnmatch.h bug?

* ????????? <g548462@...il.com> [2014-08-06 11:01:40 +0800]:
> 
> musl-libc:
>      i = fnmatch( "[[?*\\]" , "\\" , 0 ); // it will return 0 -> i = 0
> glibc:
>      i = fnmatch( "[[?*\\]" , "\\" , 0 ); // it will return 1 -> i = 1
> 
> The return value is DIFFERENT !
> I am confuse which library is wrong?
> If you have any idea, please response me and send an e-mail to me,

in a bracket expression a backslash loses its special meaning
so this pattern matches a single '[', '?', '*' or '\\' character

if glibc fails to match '\\' then it's a bug in their implementation

(this exact pattern is even part of the libc-test suite for fnmatch)

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