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
