Just another followup (currently on 1.3.15-2) I found the hexadecimal example didn't work from scratch any more, so I tried this:
$ for k in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do for j in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do echo $j.$k; touch $j.$k; done; done $ echo [a-o].[a-o] | wc 1 225 900 $ ls [a-o].[a-o] > /dev/null <returns promptly> $ echo [a-p].[a-o] | wc 1 240 960 $ ls [a-o].[a-p] > /dev/null <starts to thrash, chewing up increasing amts of ram> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/