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GLOB_BRACE portability?

In this question, I was made aware of glob()'s GLOB_BRACE option that allows for a limited set of regular expressions when searching for files.

This looks just like what I need, but according to the manual, GLOB_BRACE is "not available on some Non-GNU Operating systems." Among those seems to be Solaris.

I am building an application that is supposed to be as portable as possible, so I need to check out possible problems as early as possible.

Does somebody know of other platforms apart from Solaris where GLOB_BRACE is not supported? How about Mac OS >= X for example? It's built on top of a Unix. Is every Unix automatically a "GNU" platform as defined in the manual?

+1  A: 

Checking the relevant glob(3) man page for the *nix variant will tell you whether or not it supports GLOB_BRACE.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  2010-03-29 09:49:01
Cheers @Ignacio, that is good to know. Seeing as it's supported on OS X, presumably any Linux, and Windows, I think I can go ahead with this.
Pekka  2010-03-29 09:50:16
Don't forget the BSD family.
pra  2010-03-29 16:06:28

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