diff --git a/changes/bug40318 b/changes/bug40318
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc02f08ca0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug40318
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (configuration tests bsd):
+    - Fix glob processing errors when globs expand to invalid paths on
+      BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
+      Daniel Pinto.
diff --git a/src/lib/fs/path.c b/src/lib/fs/path.c
index 48d610ab7b..81eb3aa661 100644
--- a/src/lib/fs/path.c
+++ b/src/lib/fs/path.c
@@ -571,7 +571,20 @@ wrap_closedir(void *arg)
 {
   closedir(arg);
 }
-#endif /* defined(_WIN32) || ... */
+
+/** Function passed to glob to handle processing errors. <b>epath</b> is the
+ * path that caused the error and <b>eerrno</b> is the errno set by the
+ * function that failed. We want to ignore ENOENT and ENOTDIR because, in BSD
+ * systems, these are not ignored automatically, which makes glob fail when
+ * globs expand to non-existing paths and GLOB_ERR is set.
+ */
+static int
+glob_errfunc(const char *epath, int eerrno)
+{
+    (void)epath;
+    return eerrno == ENOENT || eerrno == ENOTDIR ? 0 : -1;
+}
+#endif /* defined(HAVE_GLOB) */
 
 /** Return a new list containing the paths that match the pattern
  * <b>pattern</b>. Return NULL on error. On POSIX systems, errno is set by the
@@ -591,7 +604,7 @@ tor_glob(const char *pattern)
   tor_free(pattern_normalized);
 #elif HAVE_GLOB /* !(defined(_WIN32)) */
   glob_t matches;
-  int flags = GLOB_ERR | GLOB_NOSORT;
+  int flags = GLOB_NOSORT;
 #ifdef GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC
   /* use functions that call sandbox_intern_string */
   flags |= GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC;
@@ -604,7 +617,10 @@ tor_glob(const char *pattern)
   matches.gl_stat = &prot_stat;
   matches.gl_lstat = &prot_lstat;
 #endif /* defined(GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC) */
-  int ret = glob(pattern, flags, NULL, &matches);
+  // use custom error handler to workaround BSD quirks and do not set GLOB_ERR
+  // because it would make glob fail on error even if the error handler ignores
+  // the error
+  int ret = glob(pattern, flags, glob_errfunc, &matches);
   if (ret == GLOB_NOMATCH) {
     return smartlist_new();
   } else if (ret != 0) {