From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3796 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2013 06:29:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 3754 invoked by uid 48); 13 Oct 2013 06:29:01 -0000 From: "bugdal at aerifal dot cx" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug manual/14029] glibc manual wrongly claims fnmatch cannot fail Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 06:29:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: manual X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: bugdal at aerifal dot cx X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14029 --- Comment #2 from Rich Felker --- I don't think this bug report is the right place to discuss whether that's the "sanest thing to do" (the alternative of returning no match seems equally valid and it's a matter of opinion which is better). To resolve this bug, the manual should just document what glibc is actually doing and the conditions under which failure may happen, and perhaps whether this behavior is intended to continue unchanged or improve in some way in the future. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.