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From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
Subject: [BUG] Glob handling is brittle
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 06:38:36 +0100
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The script below reliably makes zsh hang.

(ksh93 hangs, too. mksh, bash, yash, and ash variants execute it in no 
time at all.)

- M.

case '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' in
( *\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\\
*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\* )
	echo ok ;;
esac