On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:38:18AM -0800, jim wrote:
>I have recently upgraded from 1.5.12 to 1.5.23 and noticed something that
>has me wondering. I compiled this on 1.5.23 and have run it under cmd.exe
>on on 1.5.12 and 1.5.23:
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>{
> int i, c;
>
> for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
> printf("arg[%d]: '%s'\n", i, argv[i]);
>}
>
>On 1.5.12:
>C:\>e '/.*/'
>arg[0]: 'e'
>arg[1]: '/.*/'
>
>On 1.5.23:
>C:\>e '/.*/'
>arg[0]: 'e'
>arg[1]: '/../'
>arg[2]: '/./'
>arg[3]: '/.other/'
>
>It appears that the runtime initialization on 1.5.23 is doing command line
>expansion - is this correct? If so, is this change documented somewhere so
>I get the full explanation?
>
>thanks for any insight,
This problem was introduced when we upgraded to a newer version of
glob(). We're using a fairly recent version of this routine from
FreeBSD bug, AFAICT, it has a bug which disallows quoting characters.
I've checked in a very simple fix for this and am generating a new
snapshot.
Thanks for the test case. You actually can see the failing behavior by
running cygwin's echo from a windows command line.
cgf
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