Re: Bash-2.04 vs glibc-2.2.1

[Chet Ramey]

> My solution:
> I looked at pathexp.c. I did _not_ read it for a long, but noticed a 
> possibility 
> for the use of an external globbing library. So I switched to it (seems 
> builtin in Glibc now).
> 
> Patches follow: (I can't find anything about USE_POSIX_GLOB_LIBRARY in 
> configure!?)

The code is there as a historical artifact.  If you use an external globbing
library, you lose extended pattern matching.

Thanks for this fixes, though.

> BTW: I noticed Bash has programmable completion, like Zsh (to which i am 
> migrating 
> slowly). How do the (bash /zsh ) compare ?

The zsh version is considerably more complex.

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