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From: Ismael Luceno <ismael@iodev.co.uk>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] glob: implement GLOB_TILDE
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:39:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190725153901.GA32715@pirotess.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190725143024.GL1506@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On 25/Jul/2019 10:30, Rich Felker wrote:
<...>
> > I think:
> > - ENOMEM should map to NOSPACE.
> > - a closer look reveals that all other errors should map to NOMATCH.
> 
> None of the three error codes are really good, but NOMATCH is probably
> best. GLOB_ABORTED may be more appropriate with GLOB_ERR set (to allow
> application to distinguish between an error processing the glob and
> simple nonexistence of matches). Thoughts?

Other implementations happily expand to a literal '~', so I guess we
could keep things simple and return NOMATCH.

-- 
Ismael Luceno
http://iodev.co.uk/


      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-25 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-24 21:33 Ismael Luceno
2019-07-25  3:48 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-25 10:33   ` Ismael Luceno
2019-07-25 14:30     ` Rich Felker
2019-07-25 15:39       ` Ismael Luceno [this message]

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