X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:10:47 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows Message-ID: <20091230211047.GA21552@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4B3B8786 DOT 9090506 AT cygwin DOT com> <4B3B9723 DOT 1000104 AT etr-usa DOT com> <4B3BA4EF DOT 50709 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- 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