From 61027dc82de82b4e8d583de147a98617d4f2acf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:44:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (wordexp): Explicit null words should be kept.

---
 posix/wordexp.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/posix/wordexp.c b/posix/wordexp.c
index dde9183db5..302cf0884f 100644
--- a/posix/wordexp.c
+++ b/posix/wordexp.c
@@ -2236,6 +2236,14 @@ wordexp (const char *words, wordexp_t *pwordexp, int flags)
 	if (error)
 	  goto do_error;
 
+	if (!word_length)
+	  {
+	    error = w_addword (pwordexp, NULL);
+
+	    if (error)
+	      return error;
+	  }
+
 	break;
 
       case '\'':
@@ -2246,6 +2254,14 @@ wordexp (const char *words, wordexp_t *pwordexp, int flags)
 	if (error)
 	  goto do_error;
 
+	if (!word_length)
+	  {
+	    error = w_addword (pwordexp, NULL);
+
+	    if (error)
+	      return error;
+	  }
+
 	break;
 
       case '~':