idiff --git a/bashline.c b/bashline.c
index 75e79f1..824ea9d 100644
--- a/bashline.c
+++ b/bashline.c
@@ -3752,7 +3752,7 @@ completion_glob_pattern (string)
 	  continue;
 
 	case '\\':
-	  if (*string == 0)
+	  if (*string++ == 0)
 	    return (0);	 	  
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/glob/glob.c b/lib/glob/glob.c
index 22d90a5..398253b 100644
--- a/lib/glob/glob.c
+++ b/lib/glob/glob.c
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ glob_filename (pathname, flags)
   char *directory_name, *filename, *dname, *fn;
   unsigned int directory_len;
   int free_dirname;			/* flag */
-  int dflags;
+  int dflags, hasglob;
 
   result = (char **) malloc (sizeof (char *));
   result_size = 1;
@@ -1110,9 +1110,12 @@ glob_filename (pathname, flags)
       free_dirname = 1;
     }
 
+  hasglob = 0;
   /* If directory_name contains globbing characters, then we
-     have to expand the previous levels.  Just recurse. */
-  if (directory_len > 0 && glob_pattern_p (directory_name))
+     have to expand the previous levels.  Just recurse.
+     If glob_pattern_p returns != [0,1] we have a pattern that has backslash
+     quotes but no unquoted glob pattern characters. We dequote it below. */
+  if (directory_len > 0 && (hasglob = glob_pattern_p (directory_name)) == 1)
     {
       char **directories, *d, *p;
       register unsigned int i;
@@ -1175,7 +1178,7 @@ glob_filename (pathname, flags)
       if (d[directory_len - 1] == '/')
 	d[directory_len - 1] = '\0';
 
-      directories = glob_filename (d, dflags);
+      directories = glob_filename (d, dflags|GX_RECURSE);
 
       if (free_dirname)
 	{
@@ -1332,6 +1335,20 @@ only_filename:
 	    free (directory_name);
 	  return (NULL);
 	}
+      /* If we have a directory name with quoted characters, and we are
+	 being called recursively to glob the directory portion of a pathname,
+	 we need to dequote the directory name before returning it so the
+	 caller can read the directory */
+      if (directory_len > 0 && hasglob == 2 && (flags & GX_RECURSE) != 0)
+	{
+	  dequote_pathname (directory_name);
+	  directory_len = strlen (directory_name);
+	}
+
+      /* We could check whether or not the dequoted directory_name is a
+	 directory and return it here, returning the original directory_name
+	 if not, but we don't do that yet. I'm not sure it matters. */
+
       /* Handle GX_MARKDIRS here. */
       result[0] = (char *) malloc (directory_len + 1);
       if (result[0] == NULL)
diff --git a/lib/glob/glob.h b/lib/glob/glob.h
index b946233..56ac08b 100644
--- a/lib/glob/glob.h
+++ b/lib/glob/glob.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #define GX_NULLDIR	0x100	/* internal -- no directory preceding pattern */
 #define GX_ADDCURDIR	0x200	/* internal -- add passed directory name */
 #define GX_GLOBSTAR	0x400	/* turn on special handling of ** */
+#define GX_RECURSE	0x800	/* internal -- glob_filename called recursively */
 
 extern int glob_pattern_p __P((const char *));
 extern char **glob_vector __P((char *, char *, int));
diff --git a/lib/glob/glob_loop.c b/lib/glob/glob_loop.c
index 7d6ae21..3a4f4f1 100644
--- a/lib/glob/glob_loop.c
+++ b/lib/glob/glob_loop.c
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ INTERNAL_GLOB_PATTERN_P (pattern)
 {
   register const GCHAR *p;
   register GCHAR c;
-  int bopen;
+  int bopen, bsquote;
 
   p = pattern;
-  bopen = 0;
+  bopen = bsquote = 0;
 
   while ((c = *p++) != L('\0'))
     switch (c)
@@ -55,13 +55,22 @@ INTERNAL_GLOB_PATTERN_P (pattern)
 
       case L('\\'):
 	/* Don't let the pattern end in a backslash (GMATCH returns no match
-	   if the pattern ends in a backslash anyway), but otherwise return 1,
-	   since the matching engine uses backslash as an escape character
-	   and it can be removed. */
-	return (*p != L('\0'));
+	   if the pattern ends in a backslash anyway), but otherwise note that 
+	   we have seen this, since the matching engine uses backslash as an
+	   escape character and it can be removed. We return 2 later if we
+	   have seen only backslash-escaped characters, so interested callers
+	   know they can shortcut and just dequote the pathname. */
+	if (*p != L('\0'))
+	  {
+	    p++;
+	    bsquote = 1;
+	    continue;
+	  }
+	else 	/* (*p == L('\0')) */
+	  return 0;
       }
 
-  return 0;
+  return bsquote ? 2 : 0;
 }
 
 #undef INTERNAL_GLOB_PATTERN_P
diff --git a/patchlevel.h b/patchlevel.h
index a988d85..e7e960c 100644
--- a/patchlevel.h
+++ b/patchlevel.h
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@
    regexp `^#define[ 	]*PATCHLEVEL', since that's what support/mkversion.sh
    looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
 
-#define PATCHLEVEL 2
+#define PATCHLEVEL 3
 
 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */
diff --git a/pathexp.c b/pathexp.c
index b51729a..c1bf2d8 100644
--- a/pathexp.c
+++ b/pathexp.c
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ unquoted_glob_pattern_p (string)
 {
   register int c;
   char *send;
-  int open;
+  int open, bsquote;
 
   DECLARE_MBSTATE;
 
-  open = 0;
+  open = bsquote = 0;
   send = string + strlen (string);
 
   while (c = *string++)
@@ -100,7 +100,14 @@ unquoted_glob_pattern_p (string)
 	   can be removed by the matching engine, so we have to run it through
 	   globbing. */
 	case '\\':
-	  return (*string != 0);
+	  if (*string != '\0' && *string != '/')
+	    {
+	      bsquote = 1;
+	      string++;
+	      continue;
+	    }
+	  else if (*string == 0)
+	    return (0);
 	 	  
 	case CTLESC:
 	  if (*string++ == '\0')
@@ -117,7 +124,8 @@ unquoted_glob_pattern_p (string)
       ADVANCE_CHAR_P (string, send - string);
 #endif
     }
-  return (0);
+
+  return (bsquote ? 2 : 0);
 }
 
 /* Return 1 if C is a character that is `special' in a POSIX ERE and needs to

