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.