From:	"Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Bug in command-line globbing
Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:48:59 -0500 (EST)
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Arthur J. O'Dwyer wrote:
>
> If I wanted to write my own globbing code, could I put it in
> __crt0_glob_function() something like this?
>
[snipped long useless function]

Apparently not.  I used

char **__crt0_glob_function(char *arg) {
  printf(":%s:\n", arg);
  return 0;
}

to see what was getting passed to the function, and it turns out that
this "workaround" is possibly *more* useless than the default behavior.

 * Arguments are split at whitespace and stripped of quotes before
   being passed to the function.  Can you write "echo" in DJGPP?

 * Quote-globbing still occurs.  \ escapes quotes and nothing else.
   So my problem can't be fixed this way anyway.

 * Arguments do not get passed to __crt0_glob_function if they contain
   a quoted wildcard character.  This renders the function useless for
   performing any sort of non-default wildcard globbing.


-Arthur

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