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On Thu Dec 29 16:09:12 2011, perlbug@plan9.de wrote:
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> This is a bug report for perl from perlbug@plan9.de,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.12.4.
>
>
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> [Please describe your issue here]
>
> The manpage of File::Glob as an example of bsd_glob with one argument
> only, but doesn't document it's semantics (at leats after multiple
> readings I wouldn't see any explanation).
>
> Naively, one would (hopefully :) assume the behaviour with no flags
> specified would be like the behaviour of, well, no flags specified
> ("0"),
> but that is not so, the default apparently includes at least
> GLOB_NOCHECK,
> which is quite unexpected, IMHO.
>
> It would be nice if the manpage either documented the behaviour of
> "bsd_glob $scalar", or always uses an explicit flags argument.
I have documented it with commit 8c9e50e.
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Father Chrysostomos
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