Fix GH-13204: glob() fails if square bracket is in current directory#19647
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The problem is not limited to square brackets, but to every meta character. The solution is to override the glob functions for handling paths with the VCWD ones in PHP. If that is not available, use the old but limited workaround.
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| * to prepending the current working directory to the passed path. | ||
| * However, that comes with limitations regarding meta characters | ||
| * that is not solvable in general (GH-13204). */ | ||
| #ifdef PHP_GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC |
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The problem is not limited to square brackets, but to every meta character. The solution is to override the glob functions for handling paths with the VCWD ones in PHP. If that is not available, use the old but limited workaround.
This is now a viable solution on more platforms as we now bundle a glob implementation.