The C library chsize(3) if available, or a Perl implementation of it.
Function called by do_readline
to spawn a glob (or do the glob inside perl on VMS). This code used to be inline, but now perl uses File::Glob
this glob starter is only used by miniperl during the build process, or when PERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB is defined. Moving it away shrinks pp_hot.c; shrinking pp_hot.c helps speed perl up.