On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 7:52 AM Peter Stephenson
wrote:
>
> At a practical level, the difference may have arisen because a / not in
> a glob qualifier is usually present in order to select files within the
> directory, which won't work if the directory isn't readable. A glob
> qualifier, on the other hand, always applies to the final path segment.
>
I think this is exactly it. foo/ is like asking to select from among
the matches of foo/* and if foo is not readable, there are none.