X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B3B9693.6050105@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:06:11 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows References: <4B3B8786.9090506@cygwin.com> <4B3B99F0.7060005@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B3B99F0.7060005@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 12/30/2009 01:20 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Bengt Larsson (Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:18:21 +0100) >>>> Try "noglob" if your shell is not Cygwin-aware. >>> Eh? The problem is that it doesn't glob when it should. The shell is >>> standard CMD.EXE, ie Windows console. >> >> The shell (Cmd) does the globbing. Describe your problem in a Microsoft >> newsgroup. > > Hang on though, isn't there some code in the cygwin dll to do globbing for > just this situation, when you want to launch a cygwin executable from a > non-cygwin context? Perhaps that code has a problem with multi-byte chars or > something; this could be a cygwin bug, couldn't it? Yep. That's why I made my suggestion. If that works, then it's a work-around and a confirmation of a bug in Cygwin. If it doesn't, then it suggests (to me) some issue in 'ls'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple