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Re:Apple's libc shells out to Perl to implement wordexp by JoachimS on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @04:25AM (#9026132)
Yes, the OSX code seems to come from FreeBSD. Here is the FreeBSD version of the source:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/lib/libc/gen/...

It looks very similar to the current OSX file posted in an earlier comment. Calls /bin/sh too.

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