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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 03:09:20 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: "(GalaxyMaster)" <galaxy@...nwall.com.au>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: is fnmatch() a bit broken?
On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:57:56AM +0000, (GalaxyMaster) wrote:
> Rich,
>
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 02:32:13AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > galaxy@...llo:~/musl-fnmatch $ ./musl-fnmatch
> > > fnmatch("abc", "abc", 0) = 0 (expected: 0)
> > > fnmatch("[1\]] [1\]]", "1 ]", 0) = 1 (expected: 0)
> >
> > This difference is intentional because glibc's behavior is contrary to
> > the spec.
>
> Thanks for the explanation, today I learnt something :). However, you said:
>
> > A '\' can escape the '[' and make it non-special (not
> > open a bracket) but the '-' inside the bracket is not "special" to
> > begin with -- it's just part of the bracket syntax. Likewise with the
> > closing ']' case.
>
> Which brings a question on the "[1\]] [1\]]" use case not matching "1 ]". If I
> read your response correctly, it is expected to actually match on musl, did I
> get it wrong?
It's been a while since I looked at these, but the key thing is that ]
is not a special character. Only *, ?, and [ are special. ] is just
part of the bracket syntax once the bracket is open, and IIRC \] is
identical to ], closing the bracket. The subsequent ] is then outside
the bracket and matches itself (mismatch here).
Rich
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