Re: [issue1399] fnmatch(3) escapes '0' to '\'

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stathis Kamperis (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
> Suppose that we supply fnmatch(3) with a pattern of the form "\" (that is '\'
> followed by '0') without setting the FNM_NOESCAPE flag. Wouldn't the normal
> thing to do is escape the terminating character and return just '0' ? Instead
> '\' is returned. As if one has provided a pattern "\\".

I guess that also happens for any other trailing \.  In this case I'd keep 
the current behavior, because I'd expect more the \ to be used, than it to 
just disappear.

cheers
  simon

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