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diff --git a/manual/pattern.texi b/manual/pattern.texi index 24e8e4c612..f2c3f8e584 100644 --- a/manual/pattern.texi +++ b/manual/pattern.texi @@ -466,7 +466,26 @@ user name after the tilde character. So the contents of user glob ("~homer/bin/*", GLOB_TILDE, NULL, &result) @end smallexample -This functionality is equivalent to what is available in C-shells. +If the user name is not valid or the home directory cannot be determined +for some reason the pattern is left untouched and itself used as the +result. I.e., if in the last example @code{home} is not available the +tilde expansion yields to @code{"~homer/bin/*"} and @code{glob} is not +looking for a directory named @code{~homer}. + +This functionality is equivalent to what is available in C-shells if the +@code{nonomatch} flag is set. + +@comment glob.h +@comment GNU +@item GLOB_TILDE_CHECK +If this flag is used @code{glob} behaves like as if @code{GLOB_TILDE} is +given. The only difference is that if the user name is not available or +the home directory cannot be determined for other reasons this leads to +an error. @code{glob} will return @code{GLOB_NOMATCH} instead of using +the pattern itself as the name. + +This funcationality is equivalent to what is available in C-shells if +@code{nonomatch} flag is not set. @comment glob.h @comment GNU |