X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B3BA4EF.50709@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:07:27 +0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows References: <4B3B8786.9090506@cygwin.com> <4B3B9723.1000104@etr-usa.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 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. They don't have any code in them to do globbing internally on Unix and they still don't have any code in them to do globbing internally when compiled for Cygwin. They may have /optional/ globbing code to support MinGW or VC builds, stuff like GnuWin32 will use that, but it won't be compiled or invoked under Cygwin. cheers, DaveK -- 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