From: Duy Nguyen Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:03:34 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] dir.c::match_pathname(): pay attention to the length of string parameters Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Jeff King wrote: >> - return fnmatch_icase(pattern, name, FNM_PATHNAME) == 0; >> + return fnmatch_icase_mem(pattern, patternlen, >> + name, namelen, >> + FNM_PATHNAME) == 0; >> } > > I think you (or Junio) should rebase this on maint. Since c41244e > (included in maint), this call is turned to wildmatch(WM_PATHNAME) and > WM_PATHNAME is _not_ the same as FNM_PATHNAME for patterns like > "foo/**/bar". A diff between next and pu shows me that WM_PATHNAME is > incorrectly converted to FNM_PATHNAME. I hope that is the cause of all > breakages Junio found out on pu. Just tested. t0003 and t3001 on 'pu' work for me because I have USE_WILDMATCH on (which turns FNM_PATHNAME to WM_PATHNAME). Both break without USE_WILDMATCH. -- Duy