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Mention platform-dependent limitations of wchar_t.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:16:48 +0100
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@node glob
@section @code{glob}
@findex glob

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/glob.html}

Gnulib module: glob

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
IRIX 5.3, mingw, BeOS.
@item
This function may list symbolic links to nonexistent files among the results,
on some platforms.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
Some platforms may store additional flags in the @code{gl_flags} field.
@end itemize