[Tcsh] globbing problem in 6.21

Michal Szymanski msz at astrouw.edu.pl
Mon May 2 21:31:03 UTC 2022


Too bad Ubuntu still ships with buggy version after 2.5 years :(
Michal

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 05:11:32PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> It's been there for a long time:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcsh/+bug/1862333 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcsh/+bug/1862333>
> 
> christos
> 
> > On Apr 27, 2022, at 12:27 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > Michal Szymanski <msz at astrouw.edu.pl> reports a file globbing problem
> > in tcsh 6.21 wherein additional filenames are erroneously matched.  I
> > can confirm that on my Ubuntu 20.04 system where /usr/bin/tcsh is
> > 6.21.  However, for decades, I have always built and installed the
> > latest tcsh versions on our many systems, and in 6.22, 6.23, and 6.24,
> > the globbing bug is absent.
> > 
> > Alas, Ubuntu 22.04, released just six days ago, still ships with tcsh
> > 6.21.  Maybe a request from the tcsh team could get them to upgrade.
> > 
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