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* [musl] fnmatch trailing backslash
@ 2022-02-25 15:44 Tavian Barnes
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From: Tavian Barnes @ 2022-02-25 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I noticed that fnmatch() behaviour with a trailing unescaped backslash
differs between glibc and musl:

$ cat foo.c
#include <assert.h>
#include <fnmatch.h>

int main(void) {
        assert(fnmatch("\\", "\\", 0) != 0);
        return 0;
}
$ gcc foo.c -o foo && ./foo
$ musl-gcc foo.c -o foo && ./foo
Assertion failed: fnmatch("\\", "\\", 0) != 0 (foo.c: main: 5)

In https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fnmatch.html,
POSIX says:

> If pattern ends with an unescaped <backslash>, fnmatch() shall return a non-zero value (indicating either no match or an error).

And interestingly, it was a defect report from Rich that led to that
wording: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=806

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Tavian Barnes

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