Subject: Re: bug#16884: 24.3.50; desktop-read should not die on non-existing directories

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:04:25 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:36:05 +0100
> Cc: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>, Sam Steingold <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > Why do you expect an error to be thrown?
> 
> I don't expect it. I get it, when using the ls executable, and that's
> also what Sam and Glenn are reporting.

AFAIK, what happens when a wildcard matches nothing is implementation
defined.

What exactly depends on an error being thrown in this case?