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

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:09:34 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

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

ls FILE-THAT-DOES-NOT-EXIST

returns non-zero.

ls knows nothing of wildcards, that's the shell's business.