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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 08:17:21PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>>Bengt Larsson wrote:
>>
>>> Every port of Unix utilities to Windows such as ls, grep and so forth do
>>> this globbing internally.
>>
>>  No.  Not "every port".  Specifically, not Cygwin ones: they get it done for
>>them, by the shell that launches them, or in fallback cases by the Cygwin DLL.
>
>It depends on what you mean by "internally". I didn't mean it's in the
>source code for ls(1) etc. I mean it from a users viewpoint, ie it isn't
>already done by the shell for the application when it starts up. 

Why is this particular point pertinent to the cygwin mailing list?

There's a bug in the DLL.  It needs to be fixed.  End of story.

cgf

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