I looked into the behavior of * in VS Code’s glob implementation and found that it actually matches zero or more characters in a path segment—not one or more as LSP 3.17 states. Specifically:

• In the VS Code source (glob.ts), the comment reads “* to match zero or more characters in a path segment.”

• The “Glob Patterns” documentation on code.visualstudio.com also says “zero or more.”

• Inspecting the implementation:

  function starsToRegExp(starCount: number, isLastPattern?: boolean): string {
    switch (starCount) {
      case 0:
        return '';
      case 1:
        // 1 star: match any number of characters except path separators (/ and \), non-greedy
        return `${NO_PATH_REGEX}*?`;
      default:
        // handler for **
    }
  }

  In regex syntax, * means “zero or more” of the preceding pattern, and the ? makes it non-greedy.

So it looks like LSP 3.17’s description of * is simply a typo.