Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:43:57 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Bug in command-line globbing
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> From: "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:48:59 -0500 (EST)
> 
> 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.

How about reading the docs before throwing more accusations in
``useless'' functionality at us?  I think the _CRT0_FLAG_KEEP_QUOTES
bit, documented in libc.info under `_crt0_startup_flags', does what
you want (although personally, I think you are wasting effort trying
to circumvent DJGPP command-line handling which already works well
enough, including in cases you need to work with).