9.388 glob

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/glob.html

Gnulib module: glob

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: IRIX 5.3, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
• This function does not list symbolic links to nonexistent files among the results, on some platforms: glibc 2.14, AIX 7.1, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11 2011-11.
• On platforms where off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not work correctly on huge directories larger than 2 GB. (Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• Some platforms may store additional flags in the gl_flags field.