>I don't know the modutils package, but if as you write the sole
>purpose of using the shell is to use the shell expansion there is a
>better way: wordexp. Also new in glibc 2.1.
Why not glob(3)?
I think it is important that modutils not be dependent on glibc2,
because the legal problems with glibc2/libio may force Yggdrasil to
switch back to libc5.
Anyhow, there are many ways to solve this either in modutils
or in a system's boot scripts, and getting the shell out of modprobe
will make it run faster anyhow. As long as executing an arbitrary
binary does not always cause the loading of a module, it is not a
C library issue.
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