Re: Infinite loop triggered by extglob +(!(x))y

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/25/21 5:01 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jul 25 2021, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > In the bash build directory, for instance, it fails right away, as it
> > should: there aren't any files ending in `y'.
>
> It doesn't matter whether the file name contains `y', just how long it
> is.  

That's not what I mean. It fails, as it should: there is no filename that
will make it succeed. The runtime is obviously proportional to the length.


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