Re: Infinite loop in bash glob matching

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 08:29:13AM +0200, Zoltán Herczeg wrote:
> I think throwing an error would be better than an undefined behaviour. Bash 
> throws error for solo parenthesis, a similar technique could be used here.

That's not really an option, because an unmatched [ isn't a syntax
error.  It's just a string.

imadev:~$ echo [
[

Generating an error for this would break backward compatibility.